Optical injection locking: From principle to applications

Z Liu, R Slavík - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2020 - opg.optica.org
This paper reviews optical injection locking (OIL) of semiconductor lasers and its application
in optical communications and signal processing. Despite complex OIL dynamics, we …

Integrated semiconductor laser optical phase lock loops

K Balakier, L Ponnampalam, MJ Fice… - IEEE Journal of …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An Optical Phase Lock Loop (OPLL) is a feedback control system that allows the phase
stabilization of a laser to a reference laser with absolute but adjustable frequency offset …

Generating the local oscillator “locally” in continuous-variable quantum key distribution based on coherent detection

B Qi, P Lougovski, R Pooser, W Grice, M Bobrek - Physical Review X, 2015 - APS
Continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) protocols based on coherent
detection have been studied extensively in both theory and experiment. In all the existing …

Homodyne OFDM with optical injection locking for carrier recovery

Z Liu, JY Kim, DS Wu, DJ Richardson… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Homodyne detection provides the simplest digital signal processing (DSP) solution to optical
coherent detection and minimizes the receiver bandwidth requirements. These features …

An integrated 40 Gbit/s optical costas receiver

M Lu, H Park, E Bloch, A Sivananthan… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a highly-integrated widely-tunable optical homodyne receiver is reported with
40 Gbaud/s data rate. By using photonic and electronic integration, the receiver is realized …

Monolithically integrated optical phase lock loop for microwave photonics

K Balakier, MJ Fice, L Ponnampalam… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a review of the critical design aspects of monolithically integrated optical phase
lock loops (OPLLs). OPLL design procedures and OPLL parameters are discussed. A …

Optical injection locking of monolithically integrated photonic source for generation of high purity signals above 100 GHz

K Balakier, MJ Fice, F van Dijk, G Kervella… - Optics …, 2014 - opg.optica.org
A monolithically integrated photonic source for tuneable mm-wave signal generation has
been fabricated. The source consists of 14 active components, ie semiconductor lasers …

Highly integrated optical heterodyne phase-locked loop with phase/frequency detection

M Lu, H Park, E Bloch, A Sivananthan, A Bhardwaj… - Optics …, 2012 - opg.optica.org
A highly-integrated optical phase-locked loop with a phase/frequency detector and a single-
sideband mixer (SSBM) has been proposed and demonstrated for the first time. A photonic …

Optical injection locking to optical frequency combs for superchannel coherent detection

AC Bordonalli, MJ Fice, AJ Seeds - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Optical injection locking characteristics of a distributed feedback laser are experimentally
investigated for multiple-wavelength injection. Using a three-wavelength source generated …

Design of optical XOR, XNOR, NAND, and OR logic gates based on multi-mode interference waveguides for binary-phase-shift-keyed signal

Y Ishizaka, Y Kawaguchi, K Saitoh… - Journal of lightwave …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a novel design method and potential application for optical XOR, XNOR, NAND,
and OR logic gates for binary-phase-shift-keyed signal processing devices. The devices are …