Low Noise Optically Tunable Opto-Electronic Oscillator With Fabry-Perot Etalon

    Authors

    I. Ozdur; D. Mandridis; N. Hoghooghi;P. J. Delfyett

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    J. Lightwave Technol.

    Keywords

    Fabry-Perot resonators; microwave oscillators optoelectronic oscillator; (OEO); MICROWAVE-OSCILLATOR; PULSES; PHASE; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic; Optics; Telecommunications

    Abstract

    A low noise optically tunable optoelectronic oscillator (OEO) scheme which uses a 1000 finesse Fabry-Perot etalon as the mode selector is demonstrated. The dependency of input optical frequency on RF frequency is theoretically analyzed and experimentally shown. The etalon-based OEO is compared with the standard OEO with RF filter and the results show higher RF frequency stability and lower phase noise. A single optical side band modulation technique is also used to improve the spectral purity and the results are compared with the double side band modulation technique. Low noise operation of an optically tunable OEO is achieved by using optical single side band modulation.

    Journal Title

    Journal of Lightwave Technology

    Volume

    28

    Issue/Number

    21

    Publication Date

    1-1-2010

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    3100

    Last Page

    3106

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000283454000004

    ISSN

    0733-8724

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