Citation
Abstract
We present experimental results of coupled opto-electronic oscillators (COEOs) constructed with a semiconductor optical-amplifier-based ring laser, a semiconductor Fabry-Perot laser, and a semiconductor colliding-pulse mode-locked laser. Each COEO can simultaneously generate short optical pulses and spectrally pure RF signals. With these devices, we obtained optical pulses as short as 6 ps and RF signals as high in frequency as 18 GHz with a spectral purity comparable to an HP 8561B synthesizer. These experiments demonstrate that COEOs are promising compact sources for generating low jitter optical pulses and low phase noise RF/millimeter wave signals.
Keywords
oscillator
optical pulses
lasers
mode lock
radio frequency
phase noise
Details
- Volume
- 42-135
- Published
- November 15, 1998
- Pages
- 1–8
- File Size
- 316.2 KB