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Applied Physics Letters / Volume 97 / Issue 8 / LASERS, OPTICS, AND OPTOELECTRONICS

Appl. Phys. Lett. 97, 081113 (2010); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3481674 (3 pages)

Semiconductor optical amplifier-based heterodyning detection for resolving optical terahertz beat-tone signals from passively mode-locked semiconductor lasers

Sylwester Latkowski, Ramón Maldonado-Basilio, Kevin Carney, Josué Parra-Cetina, Séverine Philippe, and Pascal Landais

Research Institute for Networks and Communications Engineering, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland

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(Received 11 May 2010; accepted 29 July 2010; published online 26 August 2010)

An all-optical heterodyne approach based on a room-temperature controlled semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) for measuring the frequency and linewidth of the terahertz beat-tone signal from a passively mode-locked laser is proposed. Under the injection of two external cavity lasers, the SOA acts as a local oscillator at their detuning frequency and also as an optical frequency mixer whose inputs are the self-modulated spectrum of the device under test and the two laser beams. Frequency and linewidth of the intermediate frequency signal (and therefore, the beat-tone signal) are resolved by using a photodiode and an electrical spectrum analyzer.

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KEYWORDS and PACS

Keywords

frequency measurement, heterodyne detection, laser mode locking, laser variables measurement, remote sensing by laser beam, semiconductor optical amplifiers, spectral line breadth, terahertz wave detectors

PACS

  • 42.60.Fc

    Modulation, tuning, and mode locking

  • 42.55.Px

    Semiconductor lasers; laser diodes

  • 06.30.Ft

    Time and frequency

  • 07.57.Pt

    Submillimeter wave, microwave and radiowave spectrometers; magnetic resonance spectrometers, auxiliary equipment, and techniques

  • 42.60.Da

    Resonators, cavities, amplifiers, arrays, and rings

  • 42.60.Jf

    Beam characteristics: profile, intensity, and power; spatial pattern formation

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3481674

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0003-6951 (print)  
1077-3118 (online)

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