Self-pulsating laser diode for the generation of multiple RF data channels in hybrid radio/fiber systems
Kaszubowska-Anandarajah, AleksandraORCID: 0000-0003-4811-9273 and Barry, Liam P.ORCID: 0000-0001-8366-4790
(2002)
Self-pulsating laser diode for the generation of multiple RF data channels in hybrid radio/fiber systems.
In: LEOS-02 - The 15th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 10-14 Nov 2002.
ISBN 0-7803-7500-9
In this paper we characterize the self-pulsation in a laser under external injection, and demonstrate how an injection-locked commercial laser may be used in a hybrid radio/fiber system for the distribution of multiple carrier RF data signals. The laser diode used for the experiment is a standard multiple-quantum-well DFB device with a threshold current of 26 mA, a central lasing wavelength of around 1543 nm, and an intrinsic modulation bandwidth of around 8 GHz.