A broadband optical source based optoelectronic oscillator with widely tunable frequency range

Author

Chenjun Liu ; Weiwen Zou ; Guiling Wu ; Jianping Chen

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Adv. Opt. Commun. Syst. & Networks, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai, China

fYear

2013

fDate

June 30 2013-July 4 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

A novel optoelectronic oscillator (OEO) with widely tunable frequency range is experimentally demonstrated. A single band-pass microwave photonic filter serves as an oscillating mode selector, which is composed by a broadband source, a variable optical delay line (VODL) based interferometer, an intensity modulator and a dispersive element. Thanks to the non-carrier-suppression effect of the selector, the novel OEO can generate notching-free widely tunable frequency.

Keywords

band-pass filters; intensity modulation; microwave oscillators; microwave photonics; optical delay lines; optical filters; optical tuning; OEO; VODL based interferometer; broadband optical source; intensity modulator; noncarrier-suppression effect; optoelectronic oscillator; oscillating mode selector; single band-pass microwave photonic filter; tunable frequency range; variable optical delay line; Microwave amplifiers; Microwave filters; Microwave oscillators; Microwave photonics; Optical amplifiers; Optical filters; Optical interferometry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2013 Conference on

Conference_Location

Kyoto

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOPR.2013.6600456

Filename

6600456