Title :
Tunable, agile RF photonic source
Author :
A. B. Matsko;W. Liang;D. Eliyahu;V. S. Ilchenko;A. A. Savchenkov;L. Maleki
Author_Institution :
OEwaves Inc., 465 N. Halstead Street, Suite 140, Pasadena, California 91107, USA
Abstract :
We generate spectrally pure microwave signals by beating two sub-Hz semiconductor lasers locked to an optical microresonator with an agile tunable spectrum. Microwave signal with phase noise of -25 dBc/Hz at 100Hz and -90dBc/Hz at 10 kHz are generated in this way.
Keywords :
"Photonics","Oscillators","Photodiodes","Optical resonators","Frequency conversion","Frequency-domain analysis","Wideband"
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2015
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2015.7323538
