Optical clock division based on dual-wavelength mode-locked semiconductor fiber ring laser.
We have reported the optical clock division utilizing an injected mode-locked fiber ring laser incorporating semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) and a dispersion compensation fiber (DCF). The clock division is mainly caused by the modulation competition between two wavelength components while both of them satisfy the harmonic mode-locking condition at the newly generated frequency. Stable second, third, and fourth clock divisions are obtained by properly adjusting the polarization controllers inside the ring cavity when a 10-GHz clock signal without any sub-harmonic frequency component is injected into the cavity. The radio-frequency spectra show good qualities of the obtained clock division trains.
Zhang
Weiwei
W
Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, HuazhongUniversity of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Sun
Junqiang
J
Wang
Jian
J
Zhang
Xingliang
X
Huang
Dexiu
D
D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D054023:Lasers, Semiconductor; D009991:Oscillometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*