Title :
Compact optoelectronic oscillator with ultra-low phase noise performance
Author :
Ji, Yu ; Yao, X.S. ; Maleki, L.
Author_Institution :
Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA
fDate :
9/2/1999 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A compact optoelectronic oscillator (OEO) is presented which is using constructed using a DFB laser, a semiconductor Mach-Zehnder modulator, and a dielectric resonator based RF filter. The achieved phase noise is -50 dBc/Hz at 10 Hz and -130 dBc/Hz at 10 kHz from a 10 GHz oscillation frequency, a performance comparable to that of an OEO constructed with a diode-pumped YAG laser and an LiNbO3 modulator
Keywords :
optical noise; optoelectronic devices; oscillators; phase noise; 10 GHz; DFB laser; RF filter; dielectric resonator; optoelectronic oscillator; phase noise; semiconductor Mach-Zehnder modulator;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19991027
