Injection-locked dual opto-electronic oscillator with ultra-low phase noise and ultra-low spurious level

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 3 I, 2005, Pages 929-933

  Zhou, Weimin ^a   Blasche, Gregory ^b  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Injection locked; Opto electronic oscillator (OEO); Phase noise; Spurious level

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; BANDWIDTH; FEEDBACK; FREQUENCIES; MICROWAVE DEVICES; OPTICAL FIBERS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PHOTODETECTORS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

INJECTION LOCKED; OPTO-ELECTRONIC OSCILLATOR (OEO); PHASE NOISE; SPURIOUS LEVELS;

OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES;

EID: 15844407151     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2004.842489     Document Type: Article

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