All optical millimeter-wave electrical signal generation using an integrated mode-locked semiconductor ring laser and photodiode

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1634-1636

  Vawter, G Allen ^a,b   Mar, Alan ^a   Hietala, Vince ^a,b   Zolper, John ^a   Hohimer, John ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Integrated optoelectronics; Millimeter wave generation; Mode locked lasers; Optical amplifiers; Semiconductor ring lasers; Waveguide photodetectors

Indexed keywords

LASER MODE LOCKING; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTODIODES; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

ALL OPTICAL MILLIMETER WAVE GENERATION; SEMICONDUCTOR RING LASERS; WAVEGUIDE PHOTODETECTORS;

INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS;

EID: 0031379590     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.643294     Document Type: Article

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