title: Voltage-controlled photonic oscillator.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: OEwaves Inc., 2555 E. Colorado Boulevard, Suite 400, Pasadena, California 91107, USA.
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Savchenkov
authors.forename: V S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Ilchenko
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Eliyahu
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Matsko
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Seidel
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Maleki