Numerical Investigation on Ultra-Broadband Tunable Microwave Frequency Comb Generation Using a Semiconductor Laser Under Regular Pulse Injection

IEEE Access

Zheng-Mao Wu¹  Li Fan¹  Guang-Qiong Xia¹  Xiao-Qin Xu¹ 

[1] School of Physical Science and Technology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China;

关键词: Distributed feedback semiconductor lasers (DFB-SLs);    current modulation;    regular pulse;    microwave frequency comb (MFC);   

DOI  :  10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2872530

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

A system scheme for generating ultra-broadband microwave frequency comb (MFC) based on a semiconductor laser under optical injection of regular pulse from a current-modulated laser is proposed, and the performances of the generated MFC are numerically investigated. In such a scheme, a distributed feedback semiconductor laser (DFB-SL1) under current modulation with suitable modulated parameters can be driven into regular pulsing state, which is utilized as a seed MFC with tunable frequency interval to inject into another distributed feedback semiconductor laser (DFB-SL2) for producing optimal MFC with ultrabroadband and tunable frequency interval. The simulated results demonstrate that for a seed MFC with a bandwidth of 26.4 GHz (27.0 GHz) and frequency interval of 3.3 GHz (2.7 GHz), the bandwidth of the optimized MFC generated by DFB-SL2 can arrive at 72.6 GHz (75.6 GHz) through selecting appropriate injection parameters.

【 授权许可】

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