Opto-electronic oscillator incorporating carrier suppression noise reduction technique

Author

Yao, X. Steve ; Maleki, Lute ; Dick, John

Author_Institution

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

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

565

Abstract

The noise performance of the optoelectronic oscillator (OEO) has been improved by about 20 dB. This improvement is obtained with a novel implementation of the carrier suppression technique. This performance is significant because the oscillator is free-running; and since the noise in an OEO is independent of the oscillation frequency, the same performance may also be obtained at higher frequency. We have recently developed a novel carrier suppression technique to reduce the 1/f phase noise of the oscillator even further. The technique is based on the use of a long fiber delay

Keywords

1/f noise; microwave oscillators; microwave photonics; optical delay lines; phase noise; 1/f phase noise; OEO; carrier suppression noise reduction technique; fiber delay; free-running oscillator; noise performance; optoelectronic oscillator; oscillation frequency; Coils; Delay; Microwave oscillators; Noise reduction; Optical fiber polarization; Phase noise; Phase shifters; RF signals; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frequency and Time Forum, 1999 and the IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium, 1999., Proceedings of the 1999 Joint Meeting of the European

Conference_Location

Besancon

ISSN

1075-6787

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5400-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FREQ.1999.841368

Filename

841368