Tunable Violet Laser Diode System for Optical Wireless Communication

Sani Mukhtar; Sun Xiaobin; Islam Ashry; Tien Khee Ng; Boon S. Ooi; M. Z.M. Khan

doi:10.1109/LPT.2020.2983548

Tunable Violet Laser Diode System for Optical Wireless Communication

Sani Mukhtar, Sun Xiaobin, Islam Ashry, Tien Khee Ng, Boon S. Ooi, M. Z.M. Khan^*

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Abstract

we report a tunable self-injection locked violet laser diode external cavity system exhibiting a continuous wavelength tunability of 5.15 nm (400.28-405.43 nm) with mean side-mode-suppression-ratio (SMSR) and linewidth of 23 dB and 190 pm, respectively. The effects of injection current and temperature indicate a robust system besides being cost-effective and straightforward. Moreover, a successful indoor on-off keying transmission at two different locked modes on a 0.4 m free space channel showed 10 times improvement in the bit-error-rate (BER) with value ∼ 8× 10-4 at 2 Gb/s, and better performance on 0.8 m channel length at 1.75 Gb/s compared to the free-running laser case. Our work is a potential step towards the realization of future high data capacity narrow-wavelength-spaced multiplexed optical wireless communication system wherein continuously tunable laser sources are expected to play a crucial role as transmitters.

Original language	English
Article number	9047957
Pages (from-to)	546-549
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume	32
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2020.2983548
State	Published - 1 May 2020

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Funding Information:
Manuscript received February 12, 2020; revised March 15, 2020; accepted March 23, 2020. Date of publication March 26, 2020; date of current version April 13, 2020. This work was supported in part by King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) via King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) sub-awarded Grant EE2381, from the main Grant KACST TIC R2-FP-008, for KFUPM authors, and in part by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) under Grant BAS/1/1614-01-01, Grant KCR/1/2081-01-01, and Grant GEN/1/6607-01-01, and in part by the KAUST-KFUPM Special Initiative (KKI) Program (REP/1/2878-01-01), for KAUST authors. (Corresponding author: M. Z. M. Khan.) Sani Mukhtar and M. Z. M. Khan are with the Optoelectronic Research Laboratory (ORL), Electrical Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia (e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]).

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© 1989-2012 IEEE.

Keywords

Violet laser
external cavity systems
optical wireless communication
self-injection locking
tunable laser

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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