• DocumentCode
    3711953
  • Title

    Intensity noise reduction in an hybrid III-V/Silicon laser using a gain saturated SOA

  • Author

    Nils Girard;Ghaya Baili;Pascale Nouchi;Daniel Dolfi;Alain Accard;Peter Kaspar;Dalila Make;Michael Faugeron;Jean-Guy Provost;Fr?d?ric Van Dijk;Romain Brenot;Segolene Olivier;Stephan Malhouitre;Christophe Kopp;Guang-Hua Duan

  • Author_Institution
    Thales Research and Technology, 1 Avenue A. Fresnel, 91767 Palaiseau cedex, France
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    Using a gain saturated SOA as a high-pass filter, we reduce the intensity noise of a hybrid III-V/Silicon laser by 8 dB around the relaxation oscillation frequency and up to 12dB around 100MHz leading to a Relative Intensity Noise (RIN) below -145 dB/Hz from 100 MHz to 20 GHz.
  • Keywords
    "Semiconductor optical amplifiers","Photonics","Gain","Oscillators","Noise reduction","Decision support systems","III-V semiconductor materials"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Photonics (MWP), 2015 International Topical Meeting on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MWP.2015.7356705
  • Filename
    7356705