Semiconductor laser sources for externally modulated microwave analog links

High-performance semiconductor continous-wave (CW) sources are demonstrated in this paper, which include a Fabry-Perot (FP) laser oscillator (LO) with relative intensity noise (RIN) <-165 dB/Hz at frequencies above 500 MHz, and a tapered semiconductor optical amplifier with 35-dB gain, a maximum...

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Published inIEEE transactions on microwave theory and techniques Vol. 45; no. 8; pp. 1280 - 1287
Main Authors Betts, G.E., Donnelly, J.P., Walpole, J.N., Groves, S.H., O'Donnell, F.J., Missaggia, L.J., Bailey, J., Nagoleone, A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.08.1997
Subjects
Fabry-Perot
Frequency
Laser noise
Masers
Microwave oscillators
Optical noise
Power lasers
Semiconductor device noise
Semiconductor lasers
Semiconductor optical amplifiers
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Summary:High-performance semiconductor continous-wave (CW) sources are demonstrated in this paper, which include a Fabry-Perot (FP) laser oscillator (LO) with relative intensity noise (RIN) <-165 dB/Hz at frequencies above 500 MHz, and a tapered semiconductor optical amplifier with 35-dB gain, a maximum output power of 820 mW, and RIN/spl ap/-155 dB/Hz at microwave frequencies. These are used in suboctave-bandwidth analog links to demonstrate link performance comparable to that available with solid-state laser sources.
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ISSN:0018-9480
1557-9670
DOI:10.1109/22.618422