Optical Control of a Resonant Tunneling Diode Microwave-Photonic Oscillator

We report on optical injection-locking of a microwave-photonic oscillator based on the integration of a resonant tunneling diode optical waveguide photodetector with a communication laser diode. The oscillator locking was achieved with in-fiber optical powers as low as 0.2 mW, and locking ranges up...

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Published in:IEEE photonics technology letters 2010-11, Vol.22 (21), p.1610-1612
Main Authors: Romeira, B, Figueiredo, J M L, Ironside, C N, Kelly, A E, Slight, T J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Laser diode
Nonlinear optics
Optical coupling
Optical modulation
Optical polarization
Optical waveguides
optically injection-locked oscillators
optoelectronic devices
Oscillators
Radio frequency
resonant tunneling diodes
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Summary:We report on optical injection-locking of a microwave-photonic oscillator based on the integration of a resonant tunneling diode optical waveguide photodetector with a communication laser diode. The oscillator locking was achieved with in-fiber optical powers as low as 0.2 mW, and locking ranges up to 23.8 MHz for in-fiber optical power of few milliwatts and with phase-noise suppression below -110 dBc/Hz at 10-kHz frequency offset from the center frequency. The circuit's dynamics are well described as an optically controlled Liénard oscillator.
ISSN:1041-1135
1941-0174
DOI:10.1109/LPT.2010.2076331