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Optical signal with high-frequency amplitude beats formed in a frequencymodulated injection laser and an interferometer

A. G. Plyavenek, I. A. Rachkov, S. D. Yakubovich


Abstract: A generator of an optical signal with amplitude beats tunable within the frequency range 0.1– 6.0 GHz was constructed on the basis of a homodyne system containing a single-frequency injection laser frequency-modulated by a regular sequence of rectangular current pulses and a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with an optical difference between the arms ensuring a delay of the modulating signal by half a period.

UDC: 621.373.826.038.825.4

PACS: 42.55.Px, 07.60.Ly, 42.60.Fc, 42.60.Da

Received: 03.02.1986

 English version: Soviet Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1986, 16:11, 1562–1564

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