We have designed and demonstrated a chirped ladder-type tunable filter and discussed its potential application for a tunable diode laser. A ladder interferometric filter normally has a periodic passband, which makes it impossible to stabilize laser oscillation frequency. To overcome this drawback, we have designed, fabricated, and characterized a novel chirped tunable ladder filter. We have successfully demonstrated a single-passband response in the fabricated device. Furthermore, a tuning operation of more than 30 nm was achieved by introducing a current injection structure and optimizing electrode lengths at each single-stage ladder interferometer.
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- A new wideband tunable optoelectronic oscillator (OEO) has been developed using an innovative microwave photonic filter (MPF) with a very narrow passband.
- The setup involves combining a stimulated Brillouin scattering MPF with an infinite impulse response (IIR) MPF, achieving a full width at half-maximum bandwidth of just 150 kHz, which is a record for single-passband MPFs.
- This OEO can tune frequencies from 0 to 40 GHz while maintaining signal stability, evidenced by a reliable microwave signal at 8.18 GHz, with outstanding phase noise and a high signal-to-noise ratio during adjustments.
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