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Rapidly tunable millimeter-wave optical transmitter for lidar-radar
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Rapidly tunable millimeter-wave optical transmitter for lidar-radar

Yifei Li, A.J.C Vieira, S.M Goldwasser and P.R Herczfeld
IEEE transactions on microwave theory and techniques, v 49(10), pp 2048-2054
Oct 2001

Abstract

Laser noise Laser tuning Lasers and electrooptics Millimeter wave measurements Noise measurement Optical sensors Optical transmitters Phase measurement Signal generators Tunable circuits and devices
This paper reports on the optical generation of a rapidly tunable millimeter-wave subcarrier for lidar-radar. The millimeter-wave signal is generated by beating the output from two Nd:YVO/sub 4//MgO:LiNbO/sub 3/ electrooptical monomode microchip laser sections realized monolithically in a single composite crystal. The device has a continuous tuning range up to 45 GHz. The measured chirp rate is 3816 THz/s, the voltage sensitivity is 10.6 MHz/V, and the measured residual phase noise is -106 dBc/Hz at 10-kHz offset.

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