authors DIjk, Frederic Van KERVELLA, GAEL LAMPONI, MARCO CHTIOUI, MOURAD LELARGE, FRANCOIS VINET, ERIC ROBERT, YANNICK FICE, MARTYN J. Renaud, Cyril C JIMENEZ GALINDO, ALVARO CARPINTERO DEL BARRIO, GUILLERMO
abstract A monolithically integrated tunable heterodyne source designed for the generation and modulation of sub-terahertz signals is demonstrated. Distributed feedback lasers, semiconductor optical amplifier amplifiers, passive waveguides, beam combiners, electro-optic modulators, and high-speed photodetectors have been monolithically integrated on the same InP-based platform. Millimeter wave generation at up to 105 GHz based on heterodyning the optical tones from two integrated lasers in the integrated high bandwidth unitraveling-carrier photodetector has been demonstrated. This photonic integrated chip was used in a 100-Mb/s OOK wireless transmission experiment using the integrated amplitude modulator. © 1989-2012 IEEE.
keywords millimeter wave generation; photonic integrated circuits; semiconductor lasers; distributed feedback lasers; heterodyning; modulators; monolithic integrated circuits; photodetectors; photons; semiconductor lasers; amplitude modulators; electro-optic modulators; high speed photodetectors; millimeter wave generations; monolithically integrated; passive waveguides; photonic integrated circuits; wireless transmissions; millimeter waves