Tunable Photonic Microwave Oscillator Self-Locked by Polarization-Rotated Optical Feedback (Preprint)

Abstract

Combining optical injection and polarization-rotated optical feedback in a semiconductor laser can induce self-referenced periodic output that is widely tunable by simply varying the dc-bias points of the master and slave lasers. We observed feedback-induced reduction of the pulsation peak linewidth by more than two orders of magnitude relative to the injection-only case. The nonlinear dynamics of the optically injected semiconductor laser can be used to minimize sensitivity to fluctuations in the operating points. Performance is negatively affected by interference between the external injection signal and residual feedback in the same polarization.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA577466

Entities

People

  • Jia-ming Liu
  • Mohammad Almulla
  • Nicholas G. Usechak
  • T. B. Simpson
  • Vassilios Kovanis

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Amplifiers
  • Detectors
  • Distributed Feedback Lasers
  • Dynamics
  • Feedback
  • Frequency
  • Lasers
  • Microwave Oscillators
  • Military Research
  • Nonlinear Dynamics
  • Optoelectronic Feedback
  • Oscillators
  • Polarization
  • Semiconductor Lasers
  • Semiconductors

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Optical Physics and Photonics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Microelectronics