HIGH SPECTRAL PURITY MILLIMETER-WAVE MODULATED OPTICAL SIGNAL GENERATION USING FIBER GRATING LASERS

Authors
TIMOFEEV FN BENNETT S GRIFFIN R BAYVEL P SEEDS AJ WYATT R KASHYAP R ROBERTSON M
Citation
Fn. Timofeev et al., HIGH SPECTRAL PURITY MILLIMETER-WAVE MODULATED OPTICAL SIGNAL GENERATION USING FIBER GRATING LASERS, Electronics Letters, 34(7), 1998, pp. 668-669
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic
Journal title
Electronics Letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00135194
Volume
34
Issue
7
Year of publication
1998
Pages
668 - 669
Database
ISI
SICI code
0013-5194(1998)34:7<668:HSPMMO>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
Millimetre-wave optical signal generation by heterodyning two fibre gr ating lasers is demonstrated. The resulting beat signal has an extreme ly narrow linewidth (<50kHz), is continuously tunable (0-40GHz) and ex hibits negligible chirp under direct 2.6Gbit/s modulation.