Rapidly Tunable Millimeter-Wave Optical Transmitter for Lidar–Radar
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This paper reports on the optical generation of a rapidly tunable millimeter-wave subcarrier for lidar–radar. The millimeter-wave signal is generated by beating the output from two Nd : YVO4/MgO : LiNbO3 electrooptical monomode microchip laser sections realized monolithically in a single composite crystal. The device has a continuous tuning range up to 45 GHz. The measured chirp rate is 3816 THz/s, the voltage sensitivity is 10.6 MHz/V, and the measured residual phase noise is 106 dBc/Hz at 10-kHz offset.
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