Injection-Locked Dual Opto-Electronic Oscillator With Ultra-Low Phase Noise and Ultra-Low Spurious Level

Abstract

We report a new injection-locked dual opto-electronic oscillator (OEO) that uses a long optical fiber loop master oscillator to injection lock into a short-loop signal-mode slave oscillator, which showed substantial improvements in reducing the phase noise and spurs compared to current state-of-the-art multiloop OEOs operating at 10 GHz. Preliminary phase-noise measurement indicated approximately 140-dB reduction of the spurious level.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA599623

Entities

People

  • Gregory Blasche
  • Weimin Zhou

Organizations

  • Boston University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Analyzers
  • Bandwidth
  • Carrier Frequencies
  • Fibers
  • Filters
  • Frequency
  • Information Operations
  • Measurement
  • Microwave Oscillators
  • Military Research
  • Optical Fibers
  • Optical Modulators
  • Oscillation
  • Oscillators
  • Radio Frequency Filters
  • Radio Frequency Oscillators
  • Spectrum Analyzers

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electronics Engineering
  • Integrated Circuit Design and Technology.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics