• DocumentCode
    1689337
  • Title

    Millimeter-Wave Generation via Frequency Quadrupling in an Optically-Injected Optoelectronic Oscillator

  • Author

    Shin, Myunghun ; Kumar, Prem

  • Author_Institution
    Northwestern Univ., Evanston
  • fYear
    2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate cascaded electroabsorption-modulator-based optoelectronic oscillators (EAM-OEOs) for generating millimeter-wave signals. Low phase-noise frequency quadrupling is achieved by optically injecting 10-GHz-rate pulses from a master EAM-OEO to a 40 GHz slave EAM-OEO.
  • Keywords
    millimetre wave generation; modulators; optoelectronic devices; oscillators; electroabsorption-modulator-based; frequency 10 GHz; frequency quadrupling; millimeter-wave generation; optically-injected optoelectronic oscillator; Fiber nonlinear optics; Frequency; Master-slave; Microwave oscillators; Millimeter wave communication; Optical filters; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Signal generators; Stimulated emission;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2007. OFC/NFOEC 2007. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Anaheim, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-831-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.2007.4348914
  • Filename
    4348914