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Heterodyne detection of optical terahertz beat-tones based on semiconductor optical amplifier

Philippe, Severine, Maldonado-Basilio, Ramón, Latkowski, Sylwester orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-4464-4097 and Landais, Pascal orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-4807-0695 (2011) Heterodyne detection of optical terahertz beat-tones based on semiconductor optical amplifier. In: 13th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, 26-30 June 2011, Stockholm, Sweden.

Abstract
In this paper, a detection scheme based on four wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) is used to measure the frequency and bandwidth of the optical terahertz beat-tone signal generated by a passively mode locked semiconductor laser. Two signals from external cavity lasers are injected into an SOA, which acts as a local oscillator at their detuning frequency. The device under test is a passively mode locked laser with a beattone frequency in the terahertz spectrum. Its optical signal is injected in the SOA, which also acts as a frequency mixer. The frequency and linewidth of the terahertz signal are then measured by retrieving the intermediate frequency detected by a low bandwidth photodiode and an electrical spectrum analyser.
Metadata
Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Invited Talk)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:terahertz; multimode semiconductor laser;four wave mixing; semiconductor optical amplifier heterodyning detection
Subjects:Engineering > Optical communication
Physical Sciences > Lasers
Physical Sciences > Photonics
Physical Sciences > Semiconductors
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Electronic Engineering
Research Initiatives and Centres > Research Institute for Networks and Communications Engineering (RINCE)
Published in: Proceedings: 13th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks. . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Publisher:Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Official URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2011.5970920
Copyright Information:© 2011 The Authors
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
Funders:Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology
ID Code:24906
Deposited On:04 Aug 2020 10:54 by Pascal Landais . Last Modified 03 Sep 2020 10:32
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