Widely Tunable Optical Local Oscillator Scheme for RF Photonic Down-Conversion

Authors :: Grant M. Brodnik
Mark Harrington
Paul A. Morton
Wei Zhang
Liron Stern
Scott B. Papp
Daniel J. Blumenthal
Source :: 2019 IEEE Avionics and Vehicle Fiber-Optics and Photonics Conference (AVFOP).
Publication Year :: 2019
Publisher :: IEEE, 2019.
Abstract: We present a widely tunable all-optical local oscillator (LO) scheme using two ultra-low noise, single cavity stabilized semiconductor lasers. Our all-optical LO with low phase noise and wide 4–32 GHz tuning range is readily extendable beyond 100 GHz for flexible optical down-conversion of RF signals.

Subjects :: Materials science
business.industry
Local oscillator
Phase noise
Down conversion
Physics::Optics
Optoelectronics
Radio frequency
Photonics
business
Noise (electronics)
Semiconductor laser theory

Database :: OpenAIRE
Journal :: 2019 IEEE Avionics and Vehicle Fiber-Optics and Photonics Conference (AVFOP)
Accession number :: edsair.doi...........23b64bea773aafda76cc482680d8b389

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