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Optical millimeter-wave generation based on period-one oscillation in VCSELs subject to optical injection

ZONG-MIN LENG1, GUANG-QIONG XIA1,2, ZHENG-MAO WU1,*

Affiliation

  1. School of Physics, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
  2. State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China

Abstract

In this paper, based on period-one oscillation in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) subject to optical injection, a novel millimeter-wave generation method is proposed and investigated. The results show that the optical spectrum of optical millimeter-wave consists of only two main components namely single sideband, which is helpful for overcoming the power penalty due to optical fiber dispersion. Through adjusting the injection strength and the frequency detuning between master-VCSEL and slave-VCSEL, optical millimeter-wave with different frequency can be obtained.

Keywords

Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs), Optical injection, Period-one oscillation, Millimeter-wave.

Citation

ZONG-MIN LENG, GUANG-QIONG XIA, ZHENG-MAO WU, Optical millimeter-wave generation based on period-one oscillation in VCSELs subject to optical injection, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 3, 7, July 2009, pp.644-649 (2009).

Submitted at: June 26, 2009

Accepted at: July 20, 2009