Tunable microwave generation and frequency up-conversion are demonstrated utilizing a monolithically integrated two-section DFB laser. The frequency of the microwave signal is tuned from 13 GHz to 40 GHz, which can be further improved by adjusting the wavelengths of the DFB lasers. Utilizing the sideband optical injection locking technique, frequency-doubled microwave signals with low phase noise of −100.9 dBc/Hz at 10 kHz and narrow linewidth of 102 Hz are obtained. In addition, the tunable range of frequency-doubled and frequencyquadrupled microwave signals are also investigated respectively.
A dual-frequency Doppler Lidar (DFDL) with high precision utilizing a monolithic integrated two-section DFB laser as the dual-frequency light source is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The DFDL can be realized with smaller size using the monolithic integrated two-section DFB laser which is fabricated by the reconstruction-equivalent-chirp (REC) technique with high precision and low fabrication cost. The range of the measured speed is from 13.62 μm /s to 1.56 m/s, which covers 6 orders of magnitude. The largest relative error of the DFDL system is 3.16%. The DFDL system has an excellent resolution of 1.95 μm/s, which is suitable to detect micro speed changes.
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