Modified Optical Heterodyne Down-Conversion System for Measuring Frequency Responses of Wideband Wavelength-Sensitive Electrooptical Devices

Author

Lam, Alfred K M ; Chrostowski, Lukas ; Faraji, Behnam ; Kisch, Ryan ; Jaeger, Nicolas A F

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., British Columbia Univ., Vancouver, BC

Volume

18

Issue

20

fYear

2006

Firstpage

2183

Lastpage

2185

Abstract

This letter describes a modified optical heterodyne down-conversion system for measuring the frequency response of wavelength-sensitive electrooptical devices at millimeter-wave frequencies. The new system is presented, and the frequency response of an injection-locked vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser is measured to up to 35 GHz

Keywords

electro-optical modulation; frequency measurement; heterodyne detection; laser variables measurement; semiconductor device measurement; semiconductor lasers; surface emitting lasers; frequency response measurement; injection locking; optical heterodyne down-conversion; vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser; wideband wavelength-sensitive electrooptical devices; Electrooptic devices; Frequency measurement; Frequency response; Millimeter wave measurements; Optical devices; Optical mixing; Optical surface waves; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Wavelength measurement; Wideband; Electrooptic modulators; frequency response; optical heterodyning; vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.884230

Filename

1705525