An optically tunable optoelectronic oscillator incorparating a bandpass microwave photonic filter

Author

Fan Jiang ; Yuan Yu ; Jianji Dong ; Xinliang Zhang

Author_Institution

Wuhan Nat. Lab. for Optoelectron., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China

fYear

2013

fDate

26-28 July 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We have proposed an optically tunable optoelectronic oscillator (OEO) incorporating a single passband microwave photonic filter (MPF) based on an electro-optic phase modulator and a Fabry-Pérot semiconductor optical amplifier (FP-SOA). By replacing the electrical bandpass filter in a traditional single-loop OEO with the MPF, the oscillating frequency can be simply tuned by altering the bias current of the FP-SOA.

Keywords

band-pass filters; electro-optical modulation; microwave filters; microwave photonics; oscillators; phase modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; FP-SOA; Fabry-Perot semiconductor optical amplifier; bandpass microwave photonic filter; electro-optic phase modulator; optically tunable optoelectronic oscillator; single-loop OEO; Band-pass filters; Microwave amplifiers; Microwave filters; Microwave oscillators; Microwave photonics; Optical amplifiers; Optical filters; Microwave photonic filter; Optoelectronic oscillator;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN), 2013 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICOCN.2013.6617225

Filename

6617225