Dual Laser Indium Phosphide Photonic Integrated Circuit for Integrated Path Differential Absorption Lidar

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2021-06-22

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J. Fridlander et al., "Dual Laser Indium Phosphide Photonic Integrated Circuit for Integrated Path Differential Absorption Lidar," in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 1-8, Jan.-Feb. 2022, Art no. 6100208, doi: 10.1109/JSTQE.2021.3091662.

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An indium phosphide photonic integrated circuit (PIC) was demonstrated for integrated path differential absorption lidar of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). The PIC consists of two widely tunable sampled grating distributed Bragg reflector (SGDBR) lasers, directional couplers, a phase modulator, a photodiode, and semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs). One SGDBR laser, the leader, is locked to the center of an absorption line at 1572.335 nm using the on-chip phase modulator and a bench-top CO 2 Herriott reference cell. The other SGDBR laser, the follower, is stepped in frequency over ±15 GHz around 1572.335 nm to scan the target CO 2 absorption line. The follower laser is offset locked to the leader laser with an optical phase lock loop. An SOA after the follower laser generates a pulse at each frequency step to create a train of pulses that samples the target CO 2 absorption line. The PIC components and subsystem are characterized and evaluated based on target performance requirements. The leader laser demonstrated a 236-fold improvement in frequency stability standard deviation when locked compared to free running and the follower laser frequency stability standard deviation compared to the leader laser was 37.6 KHz at a 2 GHz programmed offset.