35 GHz microwave signal generation with an injection-locked laser diode

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Abstract

A new technique for sinusoidal intensity modulation of light, based on injection-locking of two longitudinal modes of a single laser to FM sidebands of another laser, is described. A 35 GHz microwave signal with a linewidth of less than 10 Hz was generated.

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