Coherent optical RF receivers constructed in self-homodyne configurations have gained considerable attention due to its simplicity and cost-efficiency. Rigorous symmetry is required in such system to suppress the laser phase noise. A method for evaluation of the un-eliminated laser phase noise in self-homodyne coherent optical RF receivers has been presented in this paper. In our proposed scheme, the un-eliminated laser phase noise is acquired by simply inserting an FBG in the in-phase arm and is found to be dependent on the interferometer asymmetry, i.e., the path imbalance of the interferometer arms. With series of simulations, the variance of the un-eliminated laser phase noise obtained by our method becomes larger when the path imbalance is increasing. The simulation results show that, variance increases with the asymmetrical time delays of two interferometer arms. Therefore, this method is very helpful in obtaining further insight into the system symmetry and is also a good guidance for the adjustment of the interferometer architecture to achieve the optimized path equality.
The polarization-resolved nonlinear dynamics of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) subject to orthogonally polarized optical pulse injection are investigated numerically based on the spin flip model. By extensive numerical bifurcation analysis, the responses dynamics of photonic neuron based on VCSELs under the arrival of external stimuli of orthogonally polarized optical pulse injection are mainly discussed. It is found that, several neuron-like dynamics, such as phasic spiking of a single abrupt large amplitude pulse followed with or without subthreshold oscillation, and tonic spiking with multiple periodic pulses, are successfully reproduced in the numerical model of VCSELs. Besides, the effects of stimuli strength, pump current, frequency detuning, as well as the linewidth enhancement factor on the neuron-like response dynamics are examined carefully. The operating parameters ranges corresponding to different neuron-like dynamics are further identified. Thus, the numerical model and simulation results are very useful and interesting for the ultrafast brain-inspired neuromorphic photonics systems based on VCSELs.
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