Abstract

This study investigates an optically injected semiconductor laser operating at period-one nonlinear dynamics for all-optical microwave generation. A novel, to the best of our knowledge, all-optical stabilization scheme is proposed to greatly enhance the spectral purity of such generated microwaves, which sends a small fraction of the injected laser output back to the injecting laser, not the injected laser itself. Mutual injection with highly different injection power between the two lasers, i.e., highly asymmetric mutual injection, is thus formed. As a result, the microwave linewidth is reduced by up to at least 85 times, the phase noise variance is improved by up to at least 750 times, and a side-peak suppression ratio of more than 44 dB is achieved. Microwave generation that is tunable up to at least 110 GHz with a 3-dB linewidth down to below 2 kHz is realized.

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