Journal
IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS
Volume 25, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2019.2911420
Keywords
LiDAR; semiconductor lasers; photonics integrated circuits (PIC)
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- DARPA AFOSR [HR0011-16-C-0106]
- NSF GRFP
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We present a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) transceiver for frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) LiDAR applications. The transmitter consists of a widely tunable sampled grating distributed Bragg reflector laser (SGDBR) and a frequency discriminator which combines multimode interference couplers, a tunable asymmetric Mach-Zehnder Interferometer (a-MZI), and balanced photodiodes. The frequency discriminator converts frequency fluctuations of the laser to amplitude fluctuations of the photodiode currents. This provides an error signal for feedback into the laser cavity for frequency stabilization. Frequency modulation is obtained by a phase shifter in the a-MZI which tunes the quadrature point of the filter and the frequency where the error is zero. An on-chip receiver couples power from the transmitter to self-heterodyne with the time-delayed echo of a distant object. The generated beat frequency of the self-heterodyne measurement gives the echo signals time-of-flight to obtain the distance and velocity of the reflecting object. The theory of the components is described, and characterization of the transmitter and receiver is presented.
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