Optical injection locking of monolithically integrated photonic source for generation of high purity signals above 100 GHz.

A monolithically integrated photonic source for tuneable mm-wave signal generation has been fabricated. The source consists of 14 active components, i.e. semiconductor lasers, amplifiers and photodetectors, all integrated on a 3 mm(2) InP chip. Heterodyne signals in the range between 85 GHz and 120 GHz with up to -10 dBm output power have been successfully generated. By optically injection locking the integrated lasers to an external optical comb source, high-spectral-purity signals at frequencies >100 GHz have been generated, with phase noise spectral density below -90 dBc/Hz being achieved at offsets from the carrier greater than 10 kHz.

[1]  K. Kikuchi,et al.  Novel method for high resolution measurement of laser output spectrum , 1980 .

[2]  D Moodie,et al.  Millimeter-Wave Photonic Components for Broadband Wireless Systems , 2010, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques.

[3]  Alwyn J. Seeds,et al.  Microwave frequency synthesis using injection locked laser comb line selection , 1995, IEEE/LEOS 1995 Digest of the LEOS Summer Topical Meetings. Flat Panel Display Technology.

[4]  P. Gallion,et al.  Optical injection locking and phase-lock loop combined systems. , 1994, Optics letters.

[5]  Francois Lelarge,et al.  Monolithic dual wavelength DFB lasers for narrow linewidth heterodyne beat-note generation , 2011, 2011 International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics jointly held with the 2011 Asia-Pacific Microwave Photonics Conference.

[6]  S. Kobayashi,et al.  Injection locking in AlGaAs semiconductor laser , 1981 .

[7]  A. Seeds,et al.  High-performance phase locking of wide linewidth semiconductor lasers by combined use of optical injection locking and optical phase-lock loop , 1999 .

[8]  Wei Li,et al.  Harmonic RF carrier generation and broadband data upconversion using stimulated Brillouin scattering , 2011 .

[9]  F van Dijk,et al.  170 GHz Uni-Traveling Carrier Photodiodes for InP-based photonic integrated circuits. , 2012, Optics express.

[10]  M. Lamponi,et al.  Microwave Photonic Integrated Circuits for Millimeter-Wave Wireless Communications , 2014, Journal of Lightwave Technology.

[11]  Robert A. DiFazio,et al.  The bandwidth crunch: Can wireless technology meet the skyrocketing demand for mobile data? , 2011, 2011 IEEE Long Island Systems, Applications and Technology Conference.

[12]  Alwyn J. Seeds,et al.  Optoelectronic millimeter-wave synthesis using an optical frequency comb Generator, optically injection locked lasers, and a unitraveling-carrier photodiode , 2003 .

[13]  N. Kukutsu,et al.  Photonic generation of millimeter and terahertz waves and its applications , 2007, 2007 19th International Conference on Applied Electromagnetics and Communications.

[14]  D Moodie,et al.  Quantum dash mode-locked lasers for millimeter wave signal generation and transmission , 2010, 2010 IEEE Photinic Society's 23rd Annual Meeting.

[15]  Larry A. Coldren,et al.  Photonic Integrated Circuits for microwave photonics , 2010, 2010 IEEE International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics.

[16]  Jianping Yao,et al.  Microwave Photonics , 2009, Journal of Lightwave Technology.

[17]  Ernesto Ciaramella,et al.  Homodyne Coherent Optical Receiver Using an Optical Injection Phase-Lock Loop , 2011, Journal of Lightwave Technology.

[18]  José Capmany,et al.  Integrated microwave photonics , 2013 .

[19]  José Capmany,et al.  Microwave photonics combines two worlds , 2007 .

[20]  U. Gliese,et al.  A wideband heterodyne optical phase-locked loop for generation of 3-18 GHz microwave carriers , 1992, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters.

[21]  Luke F. Lester,et al.  Dual-mode lasing in a 1310-nm quantum dot distributed feedback laser induced by single-beam optical injection , 2013 .