Lakshmijayasimha, Prajwal ORCID: 0000-0002-3381-3337, Anandarajah, Prince M. ORCID: 0000-0001-7335-8044, Landais, Pascal ORCID: 0000-0002-4807-0695 and Kaszubowska-Anandarajah, Aleksandra ORCID: 0000-0003-4811-9273 (2021) Optical frequency comb expansion using mutually injection-locked gain-switched lasers. Applied Sciences, 11 (15). ISSN 2076-3417
Abstract
We propose a novel scheme for the expansion and comb densification of gain-switched
optical frequency combs (GS-OFC). The technique entails mutual injection locking of two gainswitched lasers with a common master to generate a wider bandwidth OFC. Subsequently, the OFC
is further expanded and/or densified using a phase modulator with optimum drive conditions. We
experimentally demonstrate the generation of an OFC with 45 highly correlated lines separated by
6.25 GHz with an expansion factor ~3. In addition, operating in comb densification mode, the channel
spacing of the OFC is tuned from 6.25 GHz to 390.625 MHz. Finally, a detailed characterization of
the lines, across the entire expanded comb, is reported highlighting the excellent spectral purity
with linewidths of ~40 kHz, a relative intensity noise better than −152 dB/Hz, and a high degree of
phase correlation between the comb lines. The proposed method is simple, highly flexible and the
architecture is suitable for photonic integration, all of which make such an OFC extremely attractive
for the employment in a multitude of applications.
Metadata
Item Type: | Article (Published) |
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Refereed: | Yes |
Additional Information: | Article number: 7108 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | optical frequency comb; gain-switched laser; mutually injection-locked lasers |
Subjects: | Engineering > Optical communication Physical Sciences > Photonics Physical Sciences > Semiconductors |
DCU Faculties and Centres: | DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Electronic Engineering Research Institutes and Centres > Research Institute for Networks and Communications Engineering (RINCE) |
Publisher: | Optical Society of America |
Official URL: | https://doi.org/10.3390/app11157108 |
Copyright Information: | © 2021 The Authors. |
Funders: | Science Foundation Ireland’s(SFI) career development award(15/CDA/3640), Science Foundation Ireland RDF(13/RC/2077_P2)., EnterpriseIreland DTIF(DT20180268) |
ID Code: | 27068 |
Deposited On: | 27 Apr 2022 09:46 by Pascal Landais . Last Modified 20 Sep 2023 13:19 |
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