Frequency dividers are key components for frequency synthesis in wireless and wireline communication systems. Among different types of frequency dividers, LC-based injection-locked frequency dividers (ILFDs) feature highfrequency operation at low power consumption, but their locking range is quite narrow due to the high-Q nature of the resonator. Recently, design techniques to enhance the locki...

Injection locking of diode lasers is commonly used to amplify low power laser light but extremely sensitive perturbations in the current and temperature. To counter such perturbations, active stabilization often applied injection locked diode. We observe that laser’s polarization extinction ratio (PER) greatly increases when locked, therefore PER provides a measure lock quality. report robust b...

This paper presents a quadrature injection locked frequency divider (ILFD) employing tunable active inductors (TAIs), which are used is to extend the locking range and to reduce die area. The CMOS ILFD is based on a new quadrature voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) with cross-coupled switching pairs and TAI-C tanks, and was fabricated in the 0.18-μm 1P6M CMOS technology. The divide-by-2 LC-tan...

We propose and demonstrate a technique to stabilize pulse generation based on gain-induced four wave mixing (FWM) via injection locking with no feedback. Robust and low-phase noise pulse generation was achieved. Pulse-train generation from 230 MHz to ∼76  GHz with a linewidth of ∼1  Hz is experimentally demonstrated. The injection locking effectively narrows the linewidth of the generated pulse...

|A voltage controlled di erential injection locked frequency divider (VCDILFD) with a large locking range is designed in a 0:24 m CMOS technology. A 29% locking range is achieved by an optimal inductor design and also by employing high Q accumulation mode MOS varactors to change the free{running oscillation frequency of the divider. The measurement results show frequency division at 5GHz with m...

Many experiments in atomic physics require two laser beams with a controllable difference in frequencies. In this thesis, I report on realizing this goal using a technique where an electro-optic modulator sideband is filtered through a cavity and injected into a diode laser, in a novel configuration yielding very high feedback isolation without sacrificing access to the output power of the diod...