High spectral purity millimetre-wave modulated opticalsignal generation using fibre grating lasers

2 April 1998

journal article
Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in Electronics Letters

Vol. 34 (7) , 668-669
https://doi.org/10.1049/el:19980454

Abstract

Millimetre-wave optical signal generation by heterodyning two fibre grating lasers is demonstrated. The resulting beat signal has an extremely narrow linewidth (< 50 kHz), is continuously tunable (0 – 40 GHz) and exhibits negligible chirp under direct 2.6 Gbit/s modulation.

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