Real-Time Evaluation of Microwave Injection Locking Property for Resonant-Electrode-Type Optoelectronic Oscillator

Author

Sakamoto, Takahide ; Kawanishi, Tetsuya ; Izutsu, Masayuki

Author_Institution

National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) Koganei, Tokyo 184-8795, Japan, (e-mail: tsaka@nict.go.jp)

fYear

2005

fDate

12-14 Oct. 2005

Firstpage

85

Lastpage

88

Abstract

In our former report, we have proposed a resonant-electrode-type optoelectronic oscillator (RE-OEO). An optical modulator used in the RE-OEO has a resonant electrode, over which standing wave arises around the frequency of the resonance. The frequency components out of the resonant frequency are highly suppressed, so that single-mode oscillation in microwave frequency is easily achieved. In addition, the RE-OEO oscillates with lower input threshold power since modulation efficiency can be improved at the resonant condition. We experimentally investigate, in this paper, the characteristics of injection locking for the RE-OEO when microwave near the oscillation frequency is launched on it.

Keywords

LiNbO; Resonant-electrode-type optoelectornic oscillator (RE-OEO); injection locking; optical subcarrier generation; optoelectronic oscillator (OEO); radio-on-fiber (ROF) system; resonant-type optical modulation; Electrodes; Injection-locked oscillators; Microwave oscillators; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical signal processing; Optical waveguides; Resonance; Resonant frequency; LiNbO; Resonant-electrode-type optoelectornic oscillator (RE-OEO); injection locking; optical subcarrier generation; optoelectronic oscillator (OEO); radio-on-fiber (ROF) system; resonant-type optical modulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Photonics, 2005. MWP 2005. International Topical Meeting on

Print_ISBN

89-950043-3-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWP.2005.203546

Filename

1590274