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Injection locking
About: Injection locking is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4567 publications have been published within this topic receiving 60942 citations.
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07 Feb 2000
TL;DR: In this article, a three-stage LC-ring oscillator with a special ring type structure performs phase noise filtering and attenuation, achieving -132 dBc/Hz measured phase noise at 600 kHz offset frequency from a 900 MHz carrier.
Abstract: This LC ring oscillator is an architectural experiment to reduce the phase noise of an LC oscillator even further with a ring type structure. An LC oscillator with a special ring type structure performs phase noise filtering and attenuation. To prove the concept, several LC-ring oscillators are fabricated in 0.6 /spl mu/m, single-poly, triple-metal, CMOS. The three-stage LC-ring oscillator has -132 dBc/Hz measured phase noise at 600 kHz offset frequency from a 900 MHz carrier.
98 citations
TL;DR: Pan et al. as discussed by the authors performed a theoretical investigation of the polarization dynamics in a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) subject to orthogonal optical injection.
Abstract: We perform a theoretical investigation of the polarization dynamics in a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) subject to orthogonal optical injection, i.e., the injected field has a linear polarization (LP) orthogonal to that of the free-running VCSEL. In agreement with previous experiments [Z. G. Pan et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 63, 2999 (1993)], an increase of the injection strength may lead to a polarization switching accompanied by an injection locking. We find that this route to polarization switching is typically accompanied by a cascade of bifurcations to wave-mixing dynamics and time-periodic and possibly chaotic regimes. A detailed mapping of the polarization dynamics in the plane of the injection parameters (detuning, injection strength) unveils a large richness of dynamical scenarios. Of particular interest is the existence of another injection-locked solution for which the two LP modes both lock to the master laser frequency, i.e., an elliptically polarized injection-locked (EPIL) steady state. Modern continuation techniques allow us to unveil an unfolding mechanism of the EPIL solution as the detuning varies and also to link the existence of the EPIL solution to a resonance condition between the master laser frequency and the free-running frequency of the normally depressed LP mode in the slave laser. We furthermore report an additional case of bistability, in which the EPIL solution may coexist with the second injection-locked solution (the one being locked to the master polarization). This case of bistability is a result of the interaction between optical injection and the two-polarization-mode characteristics of VCSEL devices.
96 citations
09 Feb 2003
TL;DR: In this article, a clock and data recovery circuit for low power (80mW) 0.125-Gb/s CMOS 3.18/spl times/ 160 /spl mu/m) was described.
Abstract: A compact (1 mm /spl times/ 160 /spl mu/m) and low-power (80-mW) 0.18-/spl mu/m CMOS 3.125-Gb/s clock and data recovery circuit is described. The circuit utilizes injection locking to filter out high-frequency reference clock jitter and multiplying delay-locked loop duty-cycle distortions. The injection-locked slave oscillator output can have its output clocks interpolated by current steering the injecting clocks. A second-order clock and data recovery is introduced to perform the interpolation and is capable of tracking frequency offsets while exhibiting low phase wander.
94 citations
TL;DR: Using a bandwidth-enhanced semiconductor laser as a chaotic transmitter and receiver, it is shown that transmitter and the receiver lasers in a complete chaos synchronization scheme can be synchronized in a completely chaotic manner.
Abstract: Bandwidth-enhanced chaos synchronization in strongly injection-locked semiconductor lasers with optical feedback is numerically studied based on laser rate equations. The bandwidth of the chaotic carrier frequency in a semiconductor laser with optical feedback is expanded roughly three times by strong optical injection compared with the bandwidth when there is no optical injection. Using a bandwidth-enhanced semiconductor laser as a chaotic transmitter and receiver, we synchronized transmitter and the receiver lasers in a complete chaos synchronization scheme.
91 citations
TL;DR: A phase-domain macromodel is deduced which is able to capture high-order synchronization effects and the expressions derived for synchronization-regions are very general since they apply to any oscillator topology.
Abstract: This paper presents a novel approach to the analysis of oscillator injection locking due to weak external signals. From the intuitive concept of impulse-sensitivity function, a phase-domain macromodel is deduced which is able to capture high-order synchronization effects. Novel closed-form expressions for the synchronization regions are thus presented. The proposed phase-domain macromodel and the expressions derived for synchronization-regions are very general since they apply to any oscillator topology.
90 citations