Abstract
We report on a high rate, ultra-low timing jitter, short optical pulse generator based on cascaded amplitude and phase modulation in an optoelectronic oscillator. The radio-frequency supermodes are shown to be greatly suppressed with the dual-loop architecture, and a highly coherent and flat optical frequency comb is generated. Optical pulses of 12.8 ps duration are obtained with 27.5 fs integrated timing jitter from 100 Hz to 10 MHz.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1035-1038 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Optics Communications |
Volume | 285 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 15 2012 |
Keywords
- Low timing jitter
- Optical comb source
- Optoelectronic oscillator
- Photonic ADC
- Short pulse
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering