Optoelectronic Oscillators for Communication Systems
Abstract
We introduce and report recent developments on a
novel five port optoelectronic voltage controlled oscillator consisting
of a resonant tunneling diode (RTD) optical-waveguide integrated with a
laser diode. The RTD-based optoelectronic oscillator (OEO) has both
optical and electrical input and output ports, with the fifth port
allowing voltage control. The RTD-OEO locks to reference radio-frequency
(RF) sources by either optical or electrical injection locking
techniques allowing remote synchronization, eliminating the need of
impedance matching between traditional RF oscillators. RTD-OEO functions
include generation, amplification and distribution of RF carriers, clock
recovery, carrier recovery, modulation and demodulation and frequency
synthesis. Self-injection locking operation modes, where small portions
of the output electrical/optical signals are fed back into the
electrical/optical input ports, are also proposed. The self-phase locked
loop configuration can give rise to low-noise high-stable oscillations,
not limited by the RF source performance and with no need of external
optoelectronic conversion.
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