Advanced Laser Architectures for Lidar and Microwave Photonics Applications.

Author

Baili, Ghaya ; Morvan, Loic ; Alouini, Mehdi ; Dolfi, Daniel ; Huignard, JeanPierre

Author_Institution

Thales Res. & Technol., Palaiseau

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 2006

Firstpage

213

Lastpage

214

Abstract

We report on different laser architectures dedicated to both lidar and microwave photonics systems. We first demonstrate two architectures of single-mode semiconductor lasers providing a relative intensity noise limited by the shot noise floor, over a large frequency range from 100 MHz to 18 GHz. Secondly, we show, through two experimental demonstrations, that dual-frequency lasers are well adapted to provide widely tunable and highly stable optically-carried microwave signals.

Keywords

laser beam applications; laser modes; laser noise; laser tuning; microwave photonics; optical radar; semiconductor lasers; shot noise; 100 MHz to 18 GHz; dual-frequency tunable laser; laser architectures; lidar system; microwave photonics system; optically-carried microwave signals; relative intensity noise; shot noise; single-mode semiconductor lasers; Frequency; Laser noise; Laser radar; Laser stability; Masers; Microwave photonics; Optical noise; Semiconductor device noise; Semiconductor lasers; Tunable circuits and devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2006. LEOS 2006. 19th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Montreal, QC, Canada

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9555-7

Electronic_ISBN

0-7803-9555-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2006.278986

Filename

4054132