@article{discovery1569330,
          number = {15},
           month = {July},
         journal = {Optics Express},
            year = {2017},
           title = {Foundry fabricated photonic integrated circuit optical phase lock loop},
            note = {Published by The Optical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Further
distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI.},
          volume = {25},
           pages = {16888--16897},
        keywords = {Photonic integrated circuits; Optoelectronics; Integrated optics devices; Heterodyne; Radio frequency photonics; Laser stabilization},
             url = {http://doi.org/10.1364/OE.25.016888},
          author = {Ba{\l}akier, K and Fice, MJ and Ponnampalam, L and Graham, CS and Wonfor, A and Seeds, AJ and Renaud, CC},
            issn = {1094-4087},
        abstract = {This paper describes the first foundry-based InP photonic integrated circuit (PIC) designed to work within a heterodyne optical phase locked loop (OPLL). The PIC and an external electronic circuit were used to phase-lock a single-line semiconductor laser diode to an incoming reference laser, with tuneable frequency offset from 4 GHz to 12 GHz. The PIC contains 33 active and passive components monolithically integrated on a single chip, fully demonstrating the capability of a generic foundry PIC fabrication model. The electronic part of the OPLL consists of commercially available RF components. This semi-packaged system stabilizes the phase and frequency of the integrated laser so that an absolute frequency, high-purity heterodyne signal can be generated when the OPLL is in operation, with phase noise lower than ?100 dBc/Hz at 10 kHz offset from the carrier. This is the lowest phase noise level ever demonstrated by monolithically integrated OPLLs.}
}