Title :
High performance phase-locking of wide linewidth semiconductor lasers by optical injection phase-lock loop
Author :
Bordonalli, A.C. ; Walton, C. ; Seeds, A.J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. London, UK
Abstract :
A new phase-locking technique, the optical injection phase-lock loop (OIPLL), is reported which gives low values of phase error variance (0.006 rad/sup 2/, 500 MHz bandwidth) and wide locking range (>26 GHz) even with wide linewidth (>20 MHz) semiconductor lasers.
Keywords :
laser mode locking; optical phase locked loops; optical transmitters; semiconductor lasers; spectral line breadth; 20 MHz; 26 GHz; 500 MHz; MHz bandwidth; WDM; high performance phase-locking; laser mode locking; optical injection phase-lock loop; optical transmitters; phase error variance; wide linewidth MHz semiconductor lasers; wide linewidth semiconductor laser phase locking; wide locking range;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 1996. ECOC '96. 22nd European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Oslo, Norway
Print_ISBN :
82-423-0418-1
