Steed, RJ; Pozzi, F; Fice, MJ; Renaud, CC; Rogers, DC; Lealman, IF; Moodie, DG; ... Seeds, AJ; + view all Steed, RJ; Pozzi, F; Fice, MJ; Renaud, CC; Rogers, DC; Lealman, IF; Moodie, DG; Cannard, PJ; Lynch, C; Johnston, L; Robertson, MJ; Cronin, R; Pavlovic, L; Naglic, L; Vidmar, M; Seeds, AJ; - view fewer (2011) Monolithically integrated heterodyne optical phase-lock loop with RF XOR phase detector. Optics Express , 19 (21) 20048 - 20053. 10.1364/OE.19.020048.

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We present results for an heterodyne optical phase-lock loop (OPLL), monolithically integrated on InP with external phase detector and loop filter, which phase locks the integrated laser to an external source, for offset frequencies tuneable between 0.6 GHz and 6.1 GHz. The integrated semiconductor laser emits at 1553 nm with 1.1 MHz linewidth, while the external laser has a linewidth less than 150 kHz. To achieve high quality phase locking with lasers of these linewidths, the loop delay has been made less than 1.8 ns. Monolithic integration reduces the optical path delay between the laser and photodiode to less than 20 ps. The electronic part of the OPLL was implemented using a custom-designed feedback circuit with a propagation delay of similar to 1 ns and an open-loop bandwidth greater than 1 GHz. The heterodyne signal between the locked slave laser and master laser has phase noise below. 90 dBc/Hz for frequency offsets greater than 20 kHz and a phase error variance in 10 GHz bandwidth of 0.04 rad(2). (C) 2011 Optical Society of America

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