Hrl Laboratories, LLC

Raytheon Company

David L Persechini

Daniel Yap

Keyvan R Sayyah

Willie W Ng

Paul Richard Herz

Kevin Geary

Authi Ariamuthu Narayanan

Robert H Buckley

This invention provides an approach to lock the optical phase of a single sideband, carrier-suppressed coherent-AM analog optical link, so that for example an RF signal can be transmitted with high fidelity over fibers. In some embodiments, a method comprises providing a RF locking signal; impressing an RF input signal and the RF locking signal onto the optical field of a suppressed carrier; introducing the optical spectrum to a photonic integrated circuit comprising a microresonator filter and a finite impulse response filter; selectively passing the double sideband, associated with the locking frequency, through the finite impulse response filter; and recovering a RF output signal, wherein a feedback loop provides dithering to stabilize the optical phase of the link and thus preserve amplitude/phase integrity for the RF-photonic signal. The disclosed method is especially suited to the filtering of RF-photonic signals via use of the resonance passbands derived from microdisks or micro-rings.

Methods and apparatus for locking the optical phase of single-sideband amplitude-modulation signals

The present invention is a programmable and latching retro-reflective construct suitable for use as an optical label in an optical labeling system. The invention contains retro-reflective structures such as lens beads, corner cubes or other retro-reflecting type structures. The retro-reflective construct further comprises a wavelength selective, programmable and latching reflecting structure located at the reflecting surfaces of the retro-reflective structures. The optical construct can optionally contain additional optical filtering structures. Methods for fabricating the invention are also described.

Programmable optical label

An apparatus and method for building an optically pumped laser integrated with an electrically driven pump laser is disclosed. The apparatus disclosed comprises an optically pumped laser containing an active layer and an optical pump laser containing an optical mode at least partially overlapping and propagating substantially parallel to optically pumped laser's active layer. The method discloses forming an optically pumped gain element containing an active layer, forming a pump laser containing an optical mode at least partially overlapping and propagating substantially parallel to optically pumped gain element's active layer.

Optically pumped laser with an integrated optical pump

A laser transmitter with a feedback control loop for minimizing noise. The novel laser transmitter includes a laser, an external reflector adapted to form an extended cavity to the laser, and a feedback control loop adapted to detect noise in the laser and in accordance therewith, adjust the optical phase of the extended cavity such that the noise is at a desired level. The optical phase of the extended cavity is adjusted by adjusting an operating parameter of the laser, such as its bias current. In an illustrative embodiment, the feedback control loop is adapted to compute the rate of change of the noise with respect to bias current and in accordance therewith, adjust the bias current of the laser such that relative intensity noise and interferometric intermodulation distortion are simultaneously minimized.

System and method for reducing interferometric distortion and relative intensity noise in directly modulated fiber optic links

An optoelectronic-RF device has at least one optical modulator/sensor comprising at least two cascaded optical-waveguide gratings and at least one non-grating optical waveguide segment interconnecting the at least two cascaded optical-waveguide gratings, with at least one optical waveguide segment interconnecting the at least two cascaded optical-waveguide gratings via the at least one non-grating optical waveguide segment. An RF waveguide is provided for propagating an RF electric field, the at least one optical modulator/sensor being disposed in and forming a portion of the RF waveguide with light propagating through the cascaded optical-waveguide gratings in a direction that is perpendicular to a direction of propagation of the RF electric field in the RF waveguide.

Optoelectronic modulator and electric-field sensor with multiple optical-waveguide gratings

A method and apparatus for generating microwave signal frequencies. An incident reference signal is provided. A first stimulus signal is also provided, the first stimulus signal having a first polarization and having a first predetermined relationship with the incident reference signal. A second stimulus signal is also provided, the second stimulus signal having a second polarization and having a second predetermined relationship with the incident reference signal. The incident reference signal is split into a first polarization reference signal and into a second polarization reference signal. The first stimulus signal is coupled with the first polarization reference signal to provide first polarization mixed signals. The second stimulus signal is coupled with the second polarization reference signal to provide second polarization mixed signals. The first polarization mixed signals are combined with the second polarization mixed signals to provide output signals having only a first component signal at the first predetermined relationship with the incident reference signal and a second component signal at the second predetermined relationship with the incident reference signal. The first predetermined relationship with the incident reference signal is provided by a first phase lock loop and the second predetermined relationship with the incident reference signal is provided by a second phase lock loop.

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David L Persechini