Title :
Microwave Photonics Applications of Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators
Author :
Savchenkov, A.A. ; Matsko, Andrey B. ; Ilchenko, V.S. ; Yu, N. ; Maleki, L.
Author_Institution :
Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA
Abstract :
Whispering gallery resonators (WGRs) made of electro-optic crystals are suitable for the realization of widely tunable microwave photonic filters as well as electro-optical modulators. We review recent progress in the field and discuss possible solutions of problems related to design and fabrication of narrow-band widely tunable high- order filters based on high-Q LiNbO3 WGRs and demonstrate fifth-order filter function with the resonators.
Keywords :
electro-optical modulation; lithium compounds; microwave filters; microwave photonics; optical resonators; whispering gallery modes; LiNbO3; electro-optic crystals; electro-optical modulators; fifth-order filter function; microwave photonic filters; microwave photonics; whispering gallery mode resonators; widely tunable high-order filters; Band pass filters; Bandwidth; Microwave devices; Microwave filters; Microwave photonics; Optical filters; Optical resonators; Optical ring resonators; Resonator filters; Whispering gallery modes;
Conference_Titel :
Physics and Engineering of Microwaves, Millimeter and Submillimeter Waves and Workshop on Terahertz Technologies, 2007. MSMW '07. The Sixth International Kharkov Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Kharkov
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-1237-4
DOI :
10.1109/MSMW.2007.4294580
