Title :
Electronics-assisted ultra-narrow optical filtering and its application in low phase noise lasing
Author :
Yitang Dai ; Ziping Zhang ; Feifei Yin ; Yue Zhou ; Jianqiang Li ; Kun Xu
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab. of Inf. Photonics & Opt. Commun., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Beijing, China
Abstract :
A MHz-level optical filtering is achieved by frequency conversion pair between optical and radio carriers as well as electronic filtering. Narrow linewidth lasing is then obtained with 20kHz 20-dB linewidth and 65-dB side-mode suppression ratio.
Keywords :
laser beams; laser noise; microwave photonics; optical fibre communication; optical filters; optical frequency conversion; phase noise; spectral line breadth; MHz-level optical filtering; electronics-assisted ultranarrow optical filtering; frequency conversion pair; low phase noise lasing; narrow linewidth lasing; optical carriers; radiocarriers; side-mode suppression ratio; Frequency conversion; Optical amplifiers; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical noise; Optical resonators;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
