Review of optoelectronic oscillators based on modelocked lasers and resonant tunneling diode optoelectronics

Optoelectronic oscillators can provide low noise oscillators at radio frequencies in the 0.5-40 GHz range and in this paper we review two recently introduced approaches to optoelectronic oscillators. Both approaches use an optical fibre feedback loop. One approach is based on passively modelocked laser diodes and in a 40 GHz oscillator achieves up to 30 dB noise reduction. The other approach is based on resonant tunneling diode optoelectronic devices and in a 1.4 GHz oscillator can achieve up to 30 dB noise reduction. © 2011 Copyright Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE).

Citation

Ironside, C. and Haji, M. and Hou, L. and Akbar, J. and Kelly, A. and Seunarine, K. and Romeira, B. et al. 2011. Review of optoelectronic oscillators based on modelocked lasers and resonant tunneling diode optoelectronics, in Costa, M. (ed), Proceedings of the International Conference on Applications of Optics and Photonics, pp. 80011Q1-80011Q-8, May 3-7 2011. Braga, Portugal: University of Minho.

Source Title

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

DOI

10.1117/12.894635

ISBN

9780819485755

School

Department of Physics and Astronomy

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/34802

Collection

Curtin Research Publications