100 GHz phase-locked dual-frequency laser

2012 IEEE International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics, MWP 2012 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 39-42

  Pillet, Gregoire ^a   Morvan, Loic ^a   Menager, Loic ^b   Garcia, Andre ^c   Babiel, Sebastian ^c   Stohr, Andreas ^c  

^a THALES RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^b THALES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

phase noise; phase locked loop; photonic down conversion; photonic millimetre wave signal generation; solid states laser

Indexed keywords

100 GHZ; DUAL-FREQUENCY LASERS; LOW PHASE NOISE; MILLIMETER WAVE SIGNALS; MILLIMETRE WAVES; PHOTONIC DOWNCONVERSION; SPECTRAL PURITY;

BANDWIDTH; DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; MILLIMETER WAVES; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; PHASE NOISE;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 84875603821     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWP.2012.6474048     Document Type: Conference Paper

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