Millimeter wave narrowband optical fiber links using external cavity semiconductor lasers

Author

Nagarajan, Radhakrishnan ; Levy, Shmuel ; Bowers, John E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Volume

12

Issue

1

fYear

1994

fDate

1/1/1994 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

127

Lastpage

136

Abstract

We present the theoretical analysis and the experimental implementation of a narrowband millimeter wave optical fiber communication system using an external cavity semiconductor laser. We derive analytic expressions and present experimental data for the modulation response, relative intensity noise, carrier-to-noise ratio, and harmonic distortion for a semiconductor laser in an external cavity operating as a transmitter in the millimeter wave frequency range. We present a system implementation of this capable of transmitting 40-Mbt/s digital data at a 35-GHz subcarrier frequency with bit-error rates below 10^-9 over a 6.3-km-long optical fiber link

Keywords

laser cavity resonators; optical links; optical modulation; random noise; semiconductor lasers; 35 GHz; 40 Mbit/s; 6.3 km; MM wave optical links; analytic expressions; bit-error rates; carrier-to-noise ratio; digital data; external cavity semiconductor lasers; harmonic distortion; millimeter wave frequency range; millimeter wave narrowband optical fiber links; modulation response; optical fiber link; relative intensity noise; subcarrier frequency; system implementation; transmitter; Fiber lasers; Frequency; Harmonic analysis; Laser noise; Laser theory; Millimeter wave communication; Narrowband; Optical fiber communication; Optical fibers; Semiconductor lasers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/50.265745

Filename

265745