Spurious mode reduction in dual injection-locked optoelectronic oscillators

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 5839-5854

  Okusaga, O ^a,b   Adles, E J ^a   Levy, E C ^c   Zhou, W ^a   Carter, G M ^b   Menyuk, C R ^b   Horowitz, M ^c  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FIBERS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PHASE NOISE;

EXPERIMENTAL DATA; INJECTION LOCKED; INJECTION-LOCKING; LOW PHASE NOISE; NEAREST-NEIGHBORS; OPTICAL FIBER DELAY LINE; OPTO-ELECTRONIC OSCILLATOR; OSCILLATING MODES; RADIOFREQUENCY SIGNALS; RF FILTERS; SPURIOUS MODES; SYSTEMATIC STUDY; X-BAND FREQUENCIES;

OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MICROWAVE RADIATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OSCILLOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; TELECOMMUNICATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MICROWAVES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; OSCILLOMETRY; RADIO WAVES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 79953230467     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.005839     Document Type: Article

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