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High spectral purity millimetre-wave modulated opticalsignal generation using fibre grating lasers

F.N. Timofeev, S. Bennett, R.A. Griffin, Polina Bayvel, A.J. Seeds, R. Wyatt, Raman Kashyap, M.J. Robertson

Electronics Letters · 1998 · 34 citations · 5 references

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Abstract

Millimetre-wave optical signal generation by heterodyning two fibre grating lasers is demonstrated. The resulting beat signal has an extremely narrow linewidth (< 50 kHz), is continuously tunable (0 – 40 GHz) and exhibits negligible chirp under direct 2.6 Gbit/s modulation.

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