Micro-optical resonators and applications in optoelectronic oscillator

Author

Maleki, L. ; Iltchenko, V. ; Huang, S. ; Savchenkov, A.

Author_Institution

Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

7-9 Jan. 2002

Firstpage

37

Lastpage

40

Abstract

Whispering gallery mode resonators are attractive elements for photonics applications, since they offer extremely high quality factors (as high as 1010) with a small size. We have applied microresonators in the realization of a high performance, and small size optoelectronic oscillator (OEO). Specifically, we have studied the use of microspherical resonators as the optical delay element in the optoelectronic feedback loop of the OEO, and a highly efficient lithium niobate modulator based on a micro-resonator.

Keywords

electro-optical modulation; feedback oscillators; micro-optics; microwave oscillators; microwave photonics; optical resonators; 10 GHz; LiNbO/sub 3/; high quality factors; micro-optical resonators; microresonators; microspherical resonators; microwave cavity; optical delay element; optoelectronic feedback loop; optoelectronic oscillator; photonics applications; whispering gallery mode resonators; Delay; Microcavities; Optical feedback; Optical modulation; Optical resonators; Oscillators; Photonics; Q factor; Ultraviolet sources; Whispering gallery modes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Photonics, 2001. MWP '01. 2001 International Topical Meeting on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7003-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWP.2002.981790

Filename

981790