Injection locked VCSEL based oscillator - ILVBO

Abstract Oscillators are present in all telecommunication systems. They synchronize the emitter and receiver of a message. The quality of the synchronization depends on the oscillator stability. To characterize the frequency domain oscillator stability, the phase noise of the carrier is used as figu...

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Autores:
Coronel Rico, Juan Fernando
Tipo de recurso:
Doctoral thesis
Fecha de publicación:
2016
Institución:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Repositorio:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/57071
Acceso en línea:
https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/57071
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/53157/
Palabra clave:
53 Física / Physics
62 Ingeniería y operaciones afines / Engineering
Oscillator
Optical injection
VCSEL
Phase noise
Optical fiber
Optoelectronics
Oscilador optoelectrónico
Inyección óptica
Ruido de fase
Fibra óptica
Sistemas optoelectrónicos
Rights
openAccess
License
Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional
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Summary:Abstract Oscillators are present in all telecommunication systems. They synchronize the emitter and receiver of a message. The quality of the synchronization depends on the oscillator stability. To characterize the frequency domain oscillator stability, the phase noise of the carrier is used as figure of merit. An oscillator delivering a low phase noise carrier is a high spectral purity oscillator. Electronic oscillators are high performing at low frequencies. As communications systems require high data rate transmission, the electronic oscillators uses frequency multipliers that degrades the spectral purity of the carrier. The hybrid systems take advantage of the good performance of optical components at high frequency with the goal to be integrated in the electronic systems to overcome frequency limitation issues. This work use the optical injection locking technique by injecting the laser beam of a master laser inside the cavity of a VCSEL under direct modulation. The optical injection locking technique enlarges the direct modulation bandwidth of the VCSEL and reduces the Relative Intensity noise of the laser (RIN). The RIN reduction has as side effect the reduction of the additive noise inside the oscillator and, in consequence, reducing the oscillator phase noise.