How to modulate a laser diode with an analog RF signal at 1 Ghz range?
use the analoge laser diode such as the optical fiber CATV,it is not new to use the laser diode to transmit the RF signal,you can not to use the output signal of the PA to drive the lasder diode
I know that I can't drive the laser diode with a PA, I want also to note that the laser diode will not be coupled to a fiber optic.
Laser diodes are biased. Around the bias, the behaviour of the laser diode is linear, so you can define (and measure) the impedance of the laser diode. After this, you can design an impendance matching circuit, to avoid impedance mismatch between the laser and the waveguide between driver and laser diode.
You can easily calculate the current and voltage relation, once the impedance is known.
Can I directly connect the laser diode through a bais tee, appling a dc on the other end of the tee I can use a CW-laser diode "which was my plan", is this possible or I need an appropriate matching?
i know what is the probelm y meet,y donot know how to use the rf signal modulate the laser diode,or in other worda, y cannot know how to feed the rf signal into the laser diode,right?
yes much of it,
I want to modulate the RF signal, to a CW laser diode, as I mentioned my plan was to use a bias tee to introduce the DC-bias "thershold".
however I have a problem with matching the circuit, I dunno how to model the diode impedance, what I want to know is how the matching is done in this situation?
or if this is not the way the laser diode is modulated with RF-signal, I wanted to know how modulation is done in such situation?
in my current design I don't have to worry about thermal runaway I will just try to mount the diode on an appropriate heat sink, and the pwr will be quite small so I don't have to worry for now about thermal compensation circuit "although this may affect the modulation ratio but with this procedures I guess I don't have a lot to worry about" or so I hope.
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