Optical generation of millimeter-wave signals up to 330 GHz by means of cascadingly phase locking three semiconductor lasers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 458-460

  Hyodo, Masaharu ^a   Watanabe, Masayoshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Four wave mixing (FWM); Optical generation of millimeter waves; Optical phase locked loops (OPLLs); p i n photodetector; Semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; MILLIMETER WAVES; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; PHOTODETECTORS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL GENERATIONS;

SIGNAL GENERATORS;

EID: 0037339646     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2002.807932     Document Type: Article

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