Optoelectronic Oscillator Tunable by an SOA Based Slow Light Element

Author

Shumakher, Evgeny ; Dúill, Seán Ó ; Eisenstein, Gadi

Author_Institution

Electr. Eng. Dept., Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel

Volume

27

Issue

18

fYear

2009

Firstpage

4063

Lastpage

4068

Abstract

We present a continuously tunable optoelectronic oscillator with an intra cavity slow light element based on coherent population oscillations in a semiconductor optical amplifier. The performance of the oscillator is characterized in terms of its frequency tuning range and phase noise. These two characteristics can be traded for each other by choosing the operating conditions of the slow light element and the oscillator fiber length.

Keywords

laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser tuning; optical fibres; optoelectronic devices; oscillators; phase noise; semiconductor optical amplifiers; slow light; SOA based intra cavity slow light element; frequency tuning range; optoelectronic oscillator tuning; oscillator fiber length; phase noise; semiconductor optical amplifier; Filtering; Frequency; Laser tuning; Lighting control; Optical control; Optical pulse generation; Optical resonators; Oscillators; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Slow light; Oscillator noise; oscillators; semiconductor optical amplifier;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2009.2022045

Filename

5224042