A monolithic integrated injection-locked distributed feedback laser based on reconstruction equivalent chirp technique is proposed. It is proved that the optical injection-locked enhances the quality of optical frequency comb, which can realize the wide range adjustment of different comb spacing within 2GHz-10GHz. The 10-db spectral width of the OFC with different comb spacing is between 66-119GHz. CNR up to 45dB.
We proposed a dual-wavelength (DW) DFB semiconductor laser with an integrated grating reflector (GR). The proposed laser is based on the reconstruction-equivalent-chirp technique which can be realized easily with high precision. The GR section can provide reflection for the DW-DFB laser. Utilizing the proposed method, higher output power, lower threshold current and larger sidemode suppression ratio (SMSR) can be achieved.
Recent advances in monolithically integrated multi-section semiconductor lasers (MI-MSSLs) have propelled microwave photonic technologies to new potentials with a compact, reliable, and green implementation. Much research has examined that MI-MSSLs can realize the same or even better microwave photonic functions compared to discrete lasers by taking advantages of enhanced light–matter interactions. They are beneficial towards the future of integrated microwave photonics (IMWP) once integrating the other optical components such as modulators, amplifiers, transmission waveguide and so on. Herein, these recent advances in this emerging field are reviewed and discussed. Three main kinds of MI-MSSL structures are demonstrated including passive feedback laser, active feedback laser, as well as monolithically integrated mutually injected semiconductor laser. Their pros and cons are distinguished and compared through analyzing the desired characteristic indicators in modern MWP subsystems. The focus of this paper is on the photonic microwave techniques based on the nonlinear dynamics of MI-MSSLs, consisting of electro-optic conversion characteristics enhancement, photonic microwave generation, microwave photonic filter, as well as multiwavelength laser array for wavelength division multiplexing radio-over-fiber (WDM-RoF) networks. We also take a look at the future prospective at the research directions and challenges in this area.
Dual-wavelength semiconductor lasers have various potential applications in microwave photonics and laser radars fields. Monolithic integrated dual-wavelength DFB laser with equivalent-chirp sampled grating is proposed and investigated theoretically in this paper. The grating of the dual-wavelength DFB laser is designed by the reconstruction-equivalentchirp technique. The effects of the grating with different phase-shifts and different chirp ratios on the characteristics of the dual-wavelength DFB laser are theoretically demonstrated. The results proposed in this paper have great reference value for fabricating dual-wavelength semiconductor lasers.
A parallel hybrid-integrated optical injection locking (PHOIL) DFB laser with narrow linewidth is experimentally demonstrated by using REC technology. The linewidth of the PHOIL DFB laser is significantly narrowed under the injection locking state. The linewidth of the PHOIL DFB laser is measured to be under 100 kHz, compared with 1034.2 kHz under free running state. The narrowest linewidth of the PHOIL DFB laser can be as low as 31.9 kHz. The nonlinear distortions of the PHOIL DFB lasers, including third-order intermodulation distortion (IMD3) and spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR), are also suppressed significantly. The IMD3 is reduced by 4.33 dB and SFDR is also increased from 77.63 dB·Hz2/3 to 82.71 dB·Hz2/3.
High-quality microwave generation and frequency up-conversion are demonstrated utilizing a photonic integrated two-section DFB laser. Both the DFB lasers are fabricated by the reconstruction-equivalent-chirp (REC) technique. We acquire microwave signals by optical heterodyne. High-quality microwave signal can be generated by the optical injection locking technique with low phase noise of -96.3 dBc/Hz at 10-kHz and narrow linewidth of a few kHz level. Besides, Frequency-doubled and frequency-quadrupled signals are achieved respectively.
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