Optical generation of microwave carrier using optically injection-locked fabry-perot laser diodes in tandem

Author

Yali Zhang ; Lim, Chong-U ; Yizhuo Yang ; Ka Lun Lee ; Nirmalathas, Ampalavanapillai ; Shangjian Zhang ; Yong Liu

Author_Institution

Sch. of Opoelectronic Inf., Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China, Chengdu, China

fYear

2013

fDate

26-28 July 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

In this paper, we experimentally demonstrated an optical generation of microwave carrier using optically injection-locked Fabry-Perot laser diodes in tandem through a phase modulator. It is verified that the proposed scheme is able to achieve an optical carrier suppressed (OCS) signal with a good suppression ratio simultaneously through a programmable optical filter and by use of optical injection locking technique. The generated microwave carrier at 60-GHz with baseband data is down converted to baseband signal to be characterized.

Keywords

microwave generation; microwave photonics; optical filters; optical modulation; semiconductor lasers; baseband data; baseband signal; frequency 60 GHz; injection-locked Fabry-Perot laser diodes; microwave carrier optical generation; optical injection locking technique; phase modulator; programmable optical filter; suppression ratio; Optical amplifiers; Optical attenuators; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical polarization; Fabry-Perot laser diodes; Radio-aver-fibre; optical carrier suppression; optical injection locking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN), 2013 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICOCN.2013.6617233

Filename

6617233