Microwave Photonics Applications of Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators

Author

Savchenkov, A.A. ; Matsko, Andrey B. ; Ilchenko, V.S. ; Yu, N. ; Maleki, L.

Author_Institution

Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA

Volume

1

fYear

2007

fDate

25-30 June 2007

Firstpage

79

Lastpage

84

Abstract

Whispering gallery resonators (WGRs) made of electro-optic crystals are suitable for the realization of widely tunable microwave photonic filters as well as electro-optical modulators. We review recent progress in the field and discuss possible solutions of problems related to design and fabrication of narrow-band widely tunable high- order filters based on high-Q LiNbO₃ WGRs and demonstrate fifth-order filter function with the resonators.

Keywords

electro-optical modulation; lithium compounds; microwave filters; microwave photonics; optical resonators; whispering gallery modes; LiNbO₃; electro-optic crystals; electro-optical modulators; fifth-order filter function; microwave photonic filters; microwave photonics; whispering gallery mode resonators; widely tunable high-order filters; Band pass filters; Bandwidth; Microwave devices; Microwave filters; Microwave photonics; Optical filters; Optical resonators; Optical ring resonators; Resonator filters; Whispering gallery modes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Physics and Engineering of Microwaves, Millimeter and Submillimeter Waves and Workshop on Terahertz Technologies, 2007. MSMW '07. The Sixth International Kharkov Symposium on

Conference_Location

Kharkov

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1237-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MSMW.2007.4294580

Filename

4294580