Modulation bandwidth, noise, and stability of a semiconductor laser subject to strong injection locking

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1325-1327

  Liu, J M ^a,b   Chen, H F ^b   Meng, X J ^b   Simpson, T B ^a   Thompson, T B ^c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TITAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Injection locked oscillators; Modulation band width; Noise; Optical bistability; Semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; LIGHT MODULATION; OPTICAL BISTABILITY; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

NOISE REDUCTION; OPTICAL INJECTION;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0031259202     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.623251     Document Type: Article

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