Optical injection locking: From principle to applications
Optical injection locking: From principle to applications
This paper reviews optical injection locking (OIL) of semiconductor lasers and its application in optical communications and signal processing. Despite complex OIL dynamics, we attempt to explain the operational principle and main features of the OIL in an intuitive way, aiming at a wide understanding of the OIL phenomenon and its associated techniques in the optic and photonic communities. We review and compare different control techniques that enable robust OIL in practical systems. The applications are reviewed with a focus on new developments in the past decade, under the categories of 'High Speed Directly Modulated Lasers' and 'Optical Carrier Recovery'. Finally, we draw our vision for future research directions.
Carrier recovery, Coherent receiver, Direct modulation, Frequency comb, Laser dynamics, Optical communications, Optical injection locking, Optical transmitters, Time and frequency transfer
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Liu, Zhixin
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Slavík, R.
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1 January 2020
Liu, Zhixin
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Slavík, R.
2591726a-ecc0-4d1a-8e1d-4d0fd8da8f7d
Liu, Zhixin and Slavík, R.
(2020)
Optical injection locking: From principle to applications.
Journal of Lightwave Technology, 38 (1), , [8859279].
(doi:10.1109/JLT.2019.2945718).
Abstract
This paper reviews optical injection locking (OIL) of semiconductor lasers and its application in optical communications and signal processing. Despite complex OIL dynamics, we attempt to explain the operational principle and main features of the OIL in an intuitive way, aiming at a wide understanding of the OIL phenomenon and its associated techniques in the optic and photonic communities. We review and compare different control techniques that enable robust OIL in practical systems. The applications are reviewed with a focus on new developments in the past decade, under the categories of 'High Speed Directly Modulated Lasers' and 'Optical Carrier Recovery'. Finally, we draw our vision for future research directions.
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Accepted/In Press date: 11 September 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 4 October 2019
Published date: 1 January 2020
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Manuscript received July 10, 2019; revised September 11, 2019; accepted September 11, 2019. Date of publication October 4, 2019; date of current version December 30, 2019. This work was supported in part by the U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council under Grant EP/R041792/1 and Grant EP/R035342/1 (TRANSNET), and in part by the Royal Society Paul Instrument Fund under Grant PIF\R1\180001. (Corresponding author: Zhixin Liu.) Z. Liu is with the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, London WC1E 7JE, U.K. (e-mail: zhixin. liu@ucl.ac.uk).
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Carrier recovery, Coherent receiver, Direct modulation, Frequency comb, Laser dynamics, Optical communications, Optical injection locking, Optical transmitters, Time and frequency transfer
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