Microwave Photonic Application of Integrated Mutually-Injected Semiconductor Lasers
Light source is the engine of the microwave photonic(MWP)system,which fundamentally determines the upper limitation of the performance of the system.Optically-injected semiconductor lasers have many advantages,but the low integration of discrete devices,complex structure,large volume and poor stability greatly limit the engineering application of the MWP systems.Integration is the key to sol-ving the current bottleneck problems of practical application of microwave photon technology.Light-weight,high-performance and multifunctional laser sources are the keys to integrated MWP systems.Based on the above considerations,this paper reviews the recent innovative researches of the integrated mutually-injected semiconductor lasers in MWP applications,covering from high-efficiency electrical-opti-cal conversion,microwave signal generation,MWP frequency conversion,and weak signal detection to op-tical frequency comb.It is expected to provide a feasible high-performance integrated light source for inte-grated MWP systems and promote the realization of the engineering application of the integrated MWP system as soon as possible.
integrated mutually-injected semiconductor laserhigh-efficiency electrical-optical conver-sionmicrowave photonic(MWP)signal generationMWP signal processing