Robust photonic radio frequency multiplication technique by utilizing Fabry-Pérot laser diode injection locking

Jiang Yang; Jianghong Wen; Yanlin Tang; Hengwen Li; Zhuya Zhou; Jing Xu

doi:10.1117/1.3600598

1 July 2011 Robust photonic radio frequency multiplication technique by utilizing Fabry-Pérot laser diode injection locking

Jiang Yang, Jianghong Wen, Yanlin Tang, Hengwen Li, Zhuya Zhou, Jing Xu

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 50, Issue 7, 075006 (July 2011). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3600598

Abstract

A simple and robust photonic radio frequency multiplication with continuously tunable multiplication factor by using a Fabry-Pérot laser diode (FP-LD) is proposed and demonstrated. In a FP-LD, the four-wave mixing effect can create new harmonic components, and the injection-locking behavior is able to lock and amplify one of the sidebands. When the output signal beats on a high speed photodetctor, the multiplication frequencies with a factor more than 41 can be obtained. The tunability is implemented by detuning the injection wavelength. In the experimental demonstration, the frequency components around 20 GHz are generated from a 500 MHz (or 1 GHz) sinusoidal signal. The measured single sideband phase noise is −95 dBc/Hz at a 10 kHz frequency offset.

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Jiang Yang, Jianghong Wen, Yanlin Tang, Hengwen Li, Zhuya Zhou, and Jing Xu "Robust photonic radio frequency multiplication technique by utilizing Fabry-Pérot laser diode injection locking," Optical Engineering 50(7), 075006 (1 July 2011). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3600598

Published: 1 July 2011

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