A Wideband Frequency-Tunable Optoelectronic Oscillator Based on a Narrowband Phase-Shifted FBG and Wavelength Tuning of Laser

Author

Yang, Bo ; Jin, Xiaofeng ; Zhang, Xianmin ; Zheng, Shilie ; Chi, Hao ; Wang, Yi

Author_Institution

Inf. & Electron. Dept., Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

Volume

24

Issue

1

fYear

2012

Firstpage

73

Lastpage

75

Abstract

A wideband frequency-tunable optoelectronic oscillator (OEO) based on a narrowband phase-shifted fiber Bragg grating (PSFBG) and wavelength tuning of the laser is proposed and demonstrated. With assistance of an optical single-sideband modulator, the PSFBG with a narrow transmission peak acts like an equivalent high-Q microwave filter to select the oscillation frequency. Frequency tunability of the OEO can be simply realized by tuning the wavelength of a laser source. An X-band optoelectronic oscillating signal with frequency tunable at wide range from 8.4 to 11.8 GHz is generated and its performance is investigated in the experiment.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; laser tuning; microwave oscillators; microwave photonics; optical communication equipment; optical modulation; PSFBG; X-band optoelectronic oscillating signal; frequency 8.4 GHz to 11.8 GHz; frequency tuning; high-Q microwave filter; narrowband phase-shifted FBG; optical single-sideband modulator; optoelectronic oscillator; wavelength tuning; Frequency modulation; Masers; Microwave filters; Microwave oscillators; Optical filters; Tuning; Microwave generation; optoelectronic oscillator (OEO); phase-shifted fiber Bragg grating (PSFBG); wavelength tuning;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2011.2172789

Filename

6095316