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Chirp reduction and on-off contrast enhancement via optical injection locking and coherent carrier manipulation

Chirp reduction and on-off contrast enhancement via optical injection locking and coherent carrier manipulation
Chirp reduction and on-off contrast enhancement via optical injection locking and coherent carrier manipulation
The most cost-effective solution for modulating data on an optical carrier is via direct modulation of a semiconductor laser. Unfortunately, this technique suffers from high chirp. Although the chirp can be reduced by reducing the on/off modulation contrast ratio, keeping the signaling laser well above its threshold when transmitting both, logical ‘0’ and ‘1’, this results in limited on/off modulation contrast. There are several techniques for further suppression of the chirp, generally based on self-injection or optical injection locking of the directly-modulated laser (slave) to another laser (master) that emits cw light. However, this technique is very efficient only when the slave laser is operated well above the threshold, almost entirely removing the chirp, but not addressing the issue of limited on/off modulation contrast.
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Slavík, R., Kakande, J., Phelan, R., O'Carroll, J., Kelly, B. and Richardson, D.J. (2013) Chirp reduction and on-off contrast enhancement via optical injection locking and coherent carrier manipulation. SPIE Optics + Optoelectronics, , Prague, Czech Republic. 15 - 18 Apr 2013. 7 pp . (doi:10.1117/12.2017230).

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The most cost-effective solution for modulating data on an optical carrier is via direct modulation of a semiconductor laser. Unfortunately, this technique suffers from high chirp. Although the chirp can be reduced by reducing the on/off modulation contrast ratio, keeping the signaling laser well above its threshold when transmitting both, logical ‘0’ and ‘1’, this results in limited on/off modulation contrast. There are several techniques for further suppression of the chirp, generally based on self-injection or optical injection locking of the directly-modulated laser (slave) to another laser (master) that emits cw light. However, this technique is very efficient only when the slave laser is operated well above the threshold, almost entirely removing the chirp, but not addressing the issue of limited on/off modulation contrast.

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Published date: April 2013
Venue - Dates: SPIE Optics + Optoelectronics, , Prague, Czech Republic, 2013-04-15 - 2013-04-18
Organisations: Optoelectronics Research Centre

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Local EPrints ID: 362946
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/362946
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ORCID for R. Slavík: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9336-4262
ORCID for D.J. Richardson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7751-1058

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Author: R. Slavík ORCID iD
Author: J. Kakande
Author: R. Phelan
Author: J. O'Carroll
Author: B. Kelly
Author: D.J. Richardson ORCID iD

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