Abstract

A widely tunable optoelectronic oscillator (OEO) based on a broadband phase modulator and a tunable optical bandpass filter is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. A tunable range from 4.74 to 38.38 GHz is realized by directly tuning the bandwidth of the optical bandpass filter. To the best of our knowledge, this is the widest fundamental frequency tunable range ever achieved by an OEO. The phase noise performance of the generated signal is also investigated. The single-sideband phase noise is below $-120\mathrm{dBc}/\mathrm{Hz}$ at an offset of 10 KHz within the whole tunable range.

© 2013 Optical Society of America

An optically tunable wideband optoelectronic oscillator based on a bandpass microwave photonic filter

Fan Jiang, Jia Haur Wong, Huy Quoc Lam, Junqiang Zhou, Sheel Aditya, Peng Huei Lim, Kenneth Eng Kian Lee, Perry Ping Shum, and Xinliang Zhang
Opt. Express 21(14) 16381-16389 (2013)

Low-cost and wideband frequency tunable optoelectronic oscillator based on a directly modulated distributed feedback semiconductor laser

Jintian Xiong, Rong Wang, Tao Fang, Tao Pu, Dalei Chen, Lin Lu, Peng Xiang, Jilin Zheng, and Jiyong Zhao
Opt. Lett. 38(20) 4128-4130 (2013)

Wideband tunable optoelectronic oscillator based on a microwave photonic filter with an ultra-narrow passband

Haitao Tang, Yuan Yu, Ziwei Wang, Lu Xu, and Xinliang Zhang
Opt. Lett. 43(10) 2328-2331 (2018)

Wideband tunable optoelectronic oscillator based on the deamplification of stimulated Brillouin scattering

Huanfa Peng, Yongchi Xu, Xiaofeng Peng, Xiaoqi Zhu, Rui Guo, Feiya Chen, Huayang Du, Yuanxiang Chen, Cheng Zhang, Lixin Zhu, Weiwei Hu, and Zhangyuan Chen
Opt. Express 25(9) 10287-10305 (2017)

Frequency-tunable optoelectronic oscillator using a dual-mode amplified feedback laser as an electrically controlled active microwave photonic filter

Dan Lu, Biwei Pan, Haibo Chen, and Lingjuan Zhao
Opt. Lett. 40(18) 4340-4343 (2015)