Conference proceeding
Fundamental Mode-Locking of a Composite-Cavity Electro-optic Microchip Laser for Microwave Photonics
2005 International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics, v 2005, pp 37-40
2005
Abstract
Compact solid-state lasers are an attractive potential source for high speed, low noise optical pulses suitable for microwave photonic systems such as optical A/D conversion or digital communications. These small devices can be mode-locked at the fundamental cavity resonance, thereby avoiding the complications arising from the presence of supermodes in harmonically mode-locked lasers. An Nd: YVO 4 /MgO:LiNbO 3 microchip laser was mode-locked at a fundamental frequency of 20 GHz. When locked to a synthesizer, the phase noise was source-limited to -72 dBc/Hz at 1 kHz offset. A coupled optoelectronic oscillator structure was then used to mode-lock the device without a microwave source, yielding a further reduced phase noise of -95 dBc/Hz at 1 kHz offset.
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- Title
- Fundamental Mode-Locking of a Composite-Cavity Electro-optic Microchip Laser for Microwave Photonics
- Creators
- D Yoo - Drexel UniversityA MadjarS GoldwasserP Herczfeld
- Publication Details
- 2005 International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics, v 2005, pp 37-40
- Conference
- 2005 International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Number of pages
- 1
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- [Retired Faculty]
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-33847122133
- Other Identifier
- 991019173846004721