Frequency-locking of external cavity semiconductor lasers using an optical comb generator

27 March 1986

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

Vol. 22 (7) , 388-390
https://doi.org/10.1049/el:19860264

Abstract

An external cavity laser has been frequency-locked to each tooth of an optical comb generated using a reference laser source and an LiNbO₃ Mach-Zehnder interferometric frequency translator. The frequency spacing is electrically controlled and is thus both precise and variable.

Keywords

EXTERNAL CAVITY
420 MHZ SPACINGS
OPTICAL COMB GENERATOR
FDM
MACH-ZEHNDER
ELECTRICALLY-CONTROLLED FREQUENCY SPACING
OPTICAL FREQUENCY MULTIPLEXED SYSTEMS
FREQUENCY LOCKING
REFERENCE LASER SOURCE
INTERFEROMETRIC FREQUENCY TRANSLATOR
OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT
SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS
LONG-TERM STABILITY
LINBO3

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