Title

Self-Stabilization Of The Optical Frequencies And The Pulse Repetition Rate In A Coupled Optoelectronic Oscillator

Keywords

Coupled optoelectronic oscillators (COEO); Mode-locked lasers; Optical frequency comb sources; Pound-Drever-Hall laser stabilization; Semiconductor lasers

Abstract

A coupled optoelectronic oscillator (COEO) based on a laser with a high finesse intracavity etalon is presented. Unlike a conventional COEO, the incorporation of the etalon produces a 10.24-GHz spaced optical frequency comb by selecting a single optical supermode. The same etalon serves as a reference for active stabilization of the optical frequencies and the pulse repetition rate via the Pound-Drever-Hall stabilization method. This results in 160 to 190 comb lines with sub-1-MHz drift and sub-10-kHz linewidth, as well as subpicosecond pulses and 350-Hz maximum deviation of the pulse repetition rate over 10 min. The completely self-contained source allows the COEO utility to extend to a host of new coherent communication and signal processing applications. © 2008 IEEE.

Publication Date

11-3-2008

Publication Title

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volume

26

Issue

15

Number of Pages

2571-2577

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2008.927176

Socpus ID

54949128734 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/54949128734

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