Voltage-controlled photonic oscillator.
We report the development and demonstration of an X-band voltage-controlled photonic oscillator based on a whispering gallery mode resonator made of an electro-optic crystalline material. The oscillator has good spectral purity and wide, agile, linear tunability. We have modified the existing theoretical model of the opto-electronic oscillator to describe the performance of our tunable oscillator and have found a good agreement between the theoretical predictions and the measurement results. We show that the device is promising for higher-frequency applications where high-performance tunable oscillators with wide tunability do not exist.
Savchenkov
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OEwaves Inc., 2555 E. Colorado Boulevard, Suite 400, Pasadena, California 91107, USA.
Ilchenko
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Liang
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Eliyahu
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Matsko
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Seidel
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Maleki
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