Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 29, Issue 8, 2093(2009)
Generation of Multi-Wavelength Optical Pulses and Electrical Clock Signal Utilizing Optoelectronic Oscillator with Single Light Source
A scheme of generating multi-wavelength optical pulses based single light source optoelectronic oscillator (OEO) is proposed. By utilizing a directly modulated laser and spectral slicing technique, multi-wavelength optical pulses and electrical clock signal are generated in an OEO cavity. Multi-wavelength channels form a multi-loop configuration naturally, which can effectively suppress sidemodes. In demonstration, 10-ps-wide optical pulses at 5 GHz repetition rate are generated with 1 ps timing jitter, which can be arranged in 20 GHz (4×5 GHz) OTDM and time-/wavelength-interleaved optical pulse stream at different nodes. Along with the optical outputs, 5 GHz electrical signal with low phase noise (-113 dBc/Hz at 10 kHz offset from the carrier) and -100 dBc/Hz spurious modes suppression is also obtained.
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Jiang Yang, Yu Jinlong, Zhang Litai, Wu Bo, Zhang Li, Yang Enze. Generation of Multi-Wavelength Optical Pulses and Electrical Clock Signal Utilizing Optoelectronic Oscillator with Single Light Source[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2009, 29(8): 2093