Investigations on noise processes in optical resonator based microwave oscillators

Author

Saleh, Khaldoun ; Merrer, P.-H. ; Llopis, Olivier ; Cibiel, Gilles

Author_Institution

LAAS, Toulouse, France

fYear

2012

fDate

Oct. 29 2012-Nov. 1 2012

Firstpage

975

Lastpage

978

Abstract

Optoelectronic oscillators based on high Q optical resonators are presented in this paper. These oscillators use a Pound-Drever-Hall laser stabilization technique and two different types of resonators: fiber ring and monocrystalline disk resonators. Noise processes in the oscillators are discussed, particularly the influence of the laser noise conversion and nonlinear optical scattering noise. A modeling approach using CAD software is also proposed.

Keywords

Q-factor; laser noise; laser stability; microwave oscillators; optical resonators; optoelectronic devices; CAD software; Pound-Drever-Hall laser stabilization technique; fiber ring resonators; high Q optical resonators; laser noise conversion; microwave oscillators; modeling approach; monocrystalline disk resonators; noise processes; nonlinear optical scattering noise; optoelectronic oscillators; Laser noise; Masers; Microwave oscillators; Optical fibers; Optical resonators; fiber ring resonators; microwave photonics; optoelectronic oscillators; phase noise; whispering gallery mode resonators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference (EuMC), 2012 42nd European

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2215-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-2-87487-026-2

Type

conf

Filename

6459191