Demonstration of dual-polarization fiber ring laser for microwave generation

IEEE International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics - Technical Digest, MWP

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 127-130

  Clark, T R ^a   Airola, M B ^a   Sova, R M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUAL-POLARIZATION FIBER RINGS; FIBER RING LASERS; SINGLE OPTICAL SOURCE; TUNABLE GENERATION;

HETERODYNING; LIGHT MODULATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTODETECTORS; POLARIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

MICROWAVE GENERATION;

EID: 21644433839     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (12)

1. G. J. Simonis and D. G. Purchase, "Optical generation, distribution, and control of microwaves using laser heterodyne," IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 38, 1990, pp. 667-669.
2. K. J. Williams, L. Goldberg, R. D. Esman, M. Dagenais, J. F. Weller, "6-34 GHz offset phase-locking of Nd:YAG 1319nm nonplanar ring lasers," Electron. Lett., vol. 25, 1989, pp. 1242-1243.
3. R. T. Logan, "All-optical heterodyne RF signal generation using mode-locked-laser frequency comb: theory and experiments," IEEE MTT-S Digest, 2000, pp. 1741-1743.
4. L. Goldberg, H. F. Taylor, J. F. Weller, and D. M. Bloom, "Microwave signal generation with injection locked laser diodes," Electron. Lett., vol. 19, 1983, pp. 491-493.
5. L. A. Johansson and A. J. Seeds, "Generation and transmission of millimeter-wave data-modulated optical signals using an optical injection phase-lock loop," J. Lightwave Technol., vol. 21, 2003, pp. 511-520.
6. W. H. Loh, J. P. de Sandro, G. J. Cowle, B. N. Samson and A. D. Ellis, "40GHz optical-millimetre wave generation with a dual polarization distributed feedback fibre laser," Electron. Lett., vol 33, 1997, pp. 594-595.
7. S. Pajarola, G. Guekos, P. Nizzola, and H. Kawagucki, "Dual-polarization external-cavity diode laser transmitter for fiber-optic antenna remote feeding," IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol 47, 1999, pp. 1234-1240.
8. S. A. Diddams, A. Bartels, T. M. Ramond, C. W. Oates, S. Bize, E. A. Curtis, J. C. Bergquist and L. Hollberg, "Design and control of femtosecond lasers for optical clocks and the synthesis of low-noise optical and microwave signals," IEEE J. Sel. Topics in Quant. Electron., vol 9, 2003, pp. 1072-1080.
9. K. Iwatsuki, H. Okamura, and M. Saruwatari, "Wavelength-tunable single-frequency and single-polarization Er-doped fiber ring-laser with 1.4kHz linewidth," Electron. Lett., vol. 26, 1990, pp. 2033-2035.
10. Y. Cheng, J. T. Kringlebotn, W. H. Loh, R. I. Laming, and D. N. Payne, "Stable single-frequency traveling-wave fiber loop laser with integral saturable-absorber-based tracking narrow-band filter," Optics Lett., vol. 20, 1995, pp. 975-877.
11. K. N. Choi, H. F. Taylor, "Spectrally stable Erfiber laser for application in phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry," IEEE Photon. Tech. Lett., vol 15, 2003, pp. 386-388.
12. S. A. Pappert, R. Helkey, and R. T. Logan, "Photonic link techniques for microwave frequency conversion," in RF Photonic Technology in Optical Fiber Links, W. S. Chang, Ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 293-298.