• Infrared and Laser Engineering
  • Vol. 50, Issue 7, 20211053 (2021)
Zhen Zeng, Zhiyao Zhang, Lingjie Zhang, Shangjian Zhang, Heping Li, and Yong Liu*
Author Affiliations
  • State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/IRLA20211053 Cite this Article
    Zhen Zeng, Zhiyao Zhang, Lingjie Zhang, Shangjian Zhang, Heping Li, Yong Liu. Harmonically mode-locked optoelectronic oscillator (Invited)[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2021, 50(7): 20211053 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    An actively mode-locked optoelectronic oscillator (OEO) scheme was proposed to generate high-repetition-rate microwave pulse signals based on high-order harmonic mode locking. In the proposed scheme, the bias port of the electro-optic intensity modulator in the cavity was driven by a sinusoidal signal. The frequency of the sinusoidal signal ( ${f_{bias}}$) was set to be $N$ times of the free spectral range of the OEO cavity to realize fundamental ( $N = 1$) and harmonic ( $N \geqslant 2$) mode locking, where the repetition rate of the generated microwave pulse signal was equal to ${f_{bias}}$. In the proof-of-concept experiment, 10th-, 50th- and 100th-order harmonic mode locking were realized, where the repetition rate of the generated microwave pulse signal was 360 kHz, 1.8 MHz and 3.6 MHz, respectively. The proposed actively mode-locked OEO scheme provides a new way to generate low-phase-noise microwave pulse signals for pulse Doppler radar application.
    Zhen Zeng, Zhiyao Zhang, Lingjie Zhang, Shangjian Zhang, Heping Li, Yong Liu. Harmonically mode-locked optoelectronic oscillator (Invited)[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2021, 50(7): 20211053
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