Title :
Optoelectronic Oscillator Tunable by an SOA Based Slow Light Element
Author :
Shumakher, Evgeny ; Dúill, Seán Ó ; Eisenstein, Gadi
Author_Institution :
Electr. Eng. Dept., Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
Abstract :
We present a continuously tunable optoelectronic oscillator with an intra cavity slow light element based on coherent population oscillations in a semiconductor optical amplifier. The performance of the oscillator is characterized in terms of its frequency tuning range and phase noise. These two characteristics can be traded for each other by choosing the operating conditions of the slow light element and the oscillator fiber length.
Keywords :
laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser tuning; optical fibres; optoelectronic devices; oscillators; phase noise; semiconductor optical amplifiers; slow light; SOA based intra cavity slow light element; frequency tuning range; optoelectronic oscillator tuning; oscillator fiber length; phase noise; semiconductor optical amplifier; Filtering; Frequency; Laser tuning; Lighting control; Optical control; Optical pulse generation; Optical resonators; Oscillators; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Slow light; Oscillator noise; oscillators; semiconductor optical amplifier;
Journal_Title :
Lightwave Technology, Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/JLT.2009.2022045
