Optoelectronic oscillators based on polarization modulation

Author

Shilong Pan ; Fangzheng Zhang

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Radar Imaging & Microwave Photonics, Nanjing Univ. of Aeronaut. & Astronaut., Nanjing, China

fYear

2014

fDate

14-16 Nov. 2014

Firstpage

29

Lastpage

33

Abstract

A polarization modulator (PolM) incorporating with a polarizer and an optical filter can realize various functions such as phase modulation, intensity modulation with tunable chirp or frequency multiplication, tunable microwave photonic phase shifting, etc. Using a PolM to replace the intensity modulator in a traditional optoelectronic oscillator (OEO), various new features have been discovered. In this paper, the recent developments in employing PolMs for constructing different types of OEOs are reviewed and the emerging applications enabled by the PolM-based OEOs are discussed.

Keywords

integrated optoelectronics; optical filters; optical modulation; optical polarisers; oscillators; frequency multiplication; intensity modulation; optical filter; optoelectronic oscillators; phase modulation; polarization modulation; polarization modulator; polarizer; tunable microwave photonic phase shifting; Frequency modulation; Microwave filters; Microwave photonics; Optical filters; Optical polarization; Phase modulation; Optoelectronic oscillator; microwave photonics; polarization modulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Infocomm Technology (ICAIT), 2014 IEEE 7th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Fuzhou

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5454-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICAIT.2014.7019525

Filename

7019525