TY - GEN
T1 - Fine wavelength stabilization of the DFB laser at the flexible grid by photo-mixing with reference wavelengths
AU - Saeki, Atsushi
AU - Kato, Kazutoshi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright 2014 IEICE.
PY - 2014/3/25
Y1 - 2014/3/25
N2 - The lasers for the flexible grid need to have highly accurate wavelength tuning which corresponds to the optical frequency stability within ±0.1 GHz. Instead of the use of the conventional wavelength locker which detects the optical frequency with optical filters, we propose the microwave photonics approach in which the beat signals are generated by photo-mixing with reference lights and filtered by the microwave filter. In this method the frequency accuracy depends on the accuracy of the microwave filter. Experimental results show that the optical frequency is stabilized at the grid with the accuracy of ±0.1 GHz by using the band elimination filter which has the 3-dB bandwidth of 0.1 GHz.
AB - The lasers for the flexible grid need to have highly accurate wavelength tuning which corresponds to the optical frequency stability within ±0.1 GHz. Instead of the use of the conventional wavelength locker which detects the optical frequency with optical filters, we propose the microwave photonics approach in which the beat signals are generated by photo-mixing with reference lights and filtered by the microwave filter. In this method the frequency accuracy depends on the accuracy of the microwave filter. Experimental results show that the optical frequency is stabilized at the grid with the accuracy of ±0.1 GHz by using the band elimination filter which has the 3-dB bandwidth of 0.1 GHz.
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M3 - Conference contribution
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T3 - 2014 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference Proceedings, APMC 2014
SP - 1285
EP - 1287
BT - 2014 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference Proceedings, APMC 2014
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2014 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference, APMC 2014
Y2 - 4 November 2014 through 7 November 2014
ER -