Abstract The period-one oscillation produced by an external optical pulse injection driven semiconductor laser is applied to clock recovery and frequency division. By adjusting the repetition rate or injection power of the external injection optical pulses to lock the different harmonic frequencies of the period-one state, the clock recovery and the frequency division (the second and third frequency divisions) are achieved experimentally. In addition, in frequency locking ranges of 2GHz and 1.9GHz, the second and third frequency divisions are obtained with the phase noise lower than --100dBc/Hz, respectively. Our experimental results are consistent well with the numerical simulations.
Received: 09 March 2008
Revised: 19 June 2008
Accepted manuscript online:
PACS:
42.65.Sf
(Dynamics of nonlinear optical systems; optical instabilities, optical chaos and complexity, and optical spatio-temporal dynamics)
(Frequency conversion; harmonic generation, including higher-order harmonic generation)
Fund: Project supported by the National
Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No 60577019).
Cite this article:
Li Jing-Xia (李静霞), Zhang Ming-Jiang (张明江), Niu Sheng-Xiao (牛生晓), Wang Yun-Cai (王云才) Control of period-one oscillation for all-optical clock division and clock recovery by optical pulse injection driven semiconductor laser 2008 Chin. Phys. B 17 4516
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