Title :
Tunable opto-electronic oscillator with an intracavity Fabry-Perot etalon
Author :
Ozdur, Ibrahim ; Mandridis, Dimitrios ; Hoghooghi, Nazanin ; Delfyett, Peter J.
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Opt. & Photonics, Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
Abstract :
An optically tunable optoelectronic oscillator(OEO) scheme with 1000 finesse intracavity Fabry-Perot etalon is demonstrated at 10GHz. Optical single side band modulation is implemented and resulted in 10-20dB higher SNR than standard dual side band modulation.
Keywords :
Fabry-Perot interferometers; electro-optical modulation; laser tuning; optical modulation; oscillators; SNR; frequency 10 GHz; intracavity Fabry-Perot etalon; optical single side band modulation; tunable optoelectronic oscillator;
Conference_Titel :
IEEE Photonics Society, 2010 23rd Annual Meeting of the
Conference_Location :
Denver, CO
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5368-9
DOI :
10.1109/PHOTONICS.2010.5699024