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28 January 2019 Self-adaptive method for performance enhancement of sweep-velocity-locked lasers
Zheyi Yao, Gerald Hefferman, Kan Ren, Tao Wei
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Optical Engineering, 58(1), 016112 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.58.1.016112
Abstract
Optical frequency-domain reflectometry and frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW)-based sensing technologies, such as LiDAR and distributed fiber sensors, fundamentally rely on the performance of frequency-swept laser sources. Specifically, frequency-sweep linearity, which determines the level of measurement distortion, is of paramount importance. Sweep-velocity-locked semiconductor lasers (SVLLs) controlled via phase-locked loops (PLLs) have been studied for many FMCW applications owing to its simplicity, low cost, and low power consumption. We demonstrate an alternative, self-adaptive laser control system that generates an optimized predistortion curve through PLL iterations. The described self-adaptive algorithm was successfully implemented in a digital circuit. The results show that the phase error of the SVLL improved by around 1 order of magnitude relative to the one without using this method, demonstrating that this self-adaptive algorithm is a viable method of linearizing the output of frequency-swept laser sources.
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Zheyi Yao, Gerald Hefferman, Kan Ren, and Tao Wei "Self-adaptive method for performance enhancement of sweep-velocity-locked lasers," Optical Engineering 58(1), 016112 (28 January 2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.58.1.016112
Received: 17 November 2018; Accepted: 3 January 2019; Published: 28 January 2019
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KEYWORDS
Control systems
Field programmable gate arrays
Laser sources
Semiconductor lasers
Clocks
Signal generators
Fiber optics sensors
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