Optical mm-Wave Synthesizer Using Semiconductor Ring Laser (a Review)

• Authors: M. Memon , M. Siraj , H. Fathallah
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Millimeter wave (mm-wave) technology is significant for military needs and applications due to its numerous advantages, such as huge bandwidth, deploying small antenna and high radar resolution. Due to atmospheric influence, mm-wave is important in short-range applications such as fire control radar. Similarly for the next-generation communication and military applications, high-speed radio over fiber networks are very crucial. In this paper, a review of the generation and modulation of millimeter-wave signal optically using semiconductor ring laser (SRL) has been done. The phenomena of optical injection locking and four-wave mixing are exploited in SRL to generate radio frequency (RF) optical signals. The signals with huge data rate can be transferred directly from an intensity modulated optical signal onto a RF optical signal with RF frequency tunable in steps of the free spectrum range (FSR) of SRL. They can be converted with flexible RF modulation formats over the optical carrier.

Keywords

EN

42.55.Px; 42.65.Hw; 84.40.-x

Discipline

• 84.40.-x: Radiowave and microwave (including millimeter wave) technology(for microwave, submillimeter wave, and radiowave receivers and detectors, see 07.57.Kp; for microwave and radiowave spectrometers, see 07.57.Pt; for radiowave propagation, see 41.20.Jb)
• 42.55.Px: Semiconductor lasers; laser diodes
• 42.65.Hw: Phase conjugation; photorefractive and Kerr effects

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 127
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 1274-1276

Dates

published

2015-04

Contributors

author

M. Memon

• Prince Sultan Advanced Techno. Research Institute (PSATRI), King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
• COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

author

M. Siraj

• Prince Sultan Advanced Techno. Research Institute (PSATRI), King Saud University, Saudi Arabia

author

H. Fathallah

• Prince Sultan Advanced Techno. Research Institute (PSATRI), King Saud University, Saudi Arabia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.127.1274