Analysis and applications of an optically-injected 1310 nm Quantum-Dot Distributed Feedback laser

Antonio Hurtado; Jesse Mee; Mohsen Nami; Ian D. Henning; Michael J. Adams; Luke F. Lester

doi:10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602767

Analysis and applications of an optically-injected 1310 nm Quantum-Dot Distributed Feedback laser

Antonio Hurtado, Jesse Mee, Mohsen Nami, Ian D. Henning, Michael J. Adams, Luke F. Lester

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We review our experimental work on the generation of microwave (MW), millimeter-wave (MMW) and THz signals using a 1310-nm Quantum Dot (QD) Distributed-Feedback (DFB) laser. Continuous tunable MW signals with frequencies going from below 1 GHz to over 40 GHz are generated by means of the period-1 dynamics induced in the QD DFB laser when subject to external optical injection into the device's lasing mode. A new technique is also reported for the generation of MMW and THz signals with an optically-injected 1310nm-QD DFB laser. This technique is based on the dual-mode lasing and Four-Wave-Mixing arising in the QD laser under single-beam optical injection into one of its subsidiary Fabry-Perot (FP) modes. Tunability of the generated MMW and THz signals from 117 GHz to 954 GHz is also demonstrated. Coarse tunability is achieved by injecting the external light into different residual FP modes of the device, whilst fine tuneability is obtained by controlling the initial frequency detuning.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2013 15th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks
Place of Publication	Piscataway, NJ.
Publisher	IEEE
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	9781479906826
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602767
Publication status	Published - 15 Oct 2013
Event	2013 15th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2013 - Cartagena, United Kingdom Duration: 23 Jun 2013 → 27 Jun 2013

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Conference	2013 15th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2013
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Cartagena
Period	23/06/13 → 27/06/13

Keywords

microwave
millimeter-wave
optical injection
quantum-dot lasers
signal generation
THz

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Hurtado, A, Mee, J, Nami, M, Henning, ID, Adams, MJ & Lester, LF 2013, Analysis and applications of an optically-injected 1310 nm Quantum-Dot Distributed Feedback laser. in 2013 15th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks., 6602767, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ., 2013 15th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2013, Cartagena, United Kingdom, 23/06/13. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602767

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