[WG1] Advanced Lasers III

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM JST(1:15 AM - 1:30 AM UTC)

[WG1-5] Performance enhancement of photonic microwave down-conversion using injection-locked semiconductor lasers

○Guan-Ting Lu¹, Chin-Hao Tseng¹, Sheng-Kwang Hwang^1,2 (1. Department of Photonics, National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan), 2. Meta-nanoPhotonics Center, National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan))

Keywords:

Semiconductor lasers,optical amplifiers,New functional active devices,mm/THz devices

This research proposed a scheme based on optically injection-locked semiconductor lasers for photonic microwave down-conversion performance enhancement. Microwave power improvement of more than 29dB can be achieved for the down-converted signals without phase noise deterioration.