Single-cycle radio-frequency pulse generation by an optoelectronic oscillator

被引：29

作者：

Levy, Etgar C. ^{[1
]}

Horowitz, Moshe ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Technion Israel Inst Technol, Dept Elect Engn, IL-32000 Haifa, Israel

来源：

OPTICS EXPRESS | 2011年 / 19卷 / 18期

基金：

以色列科学基金会;

关键词：

LIMITED TIMING JITTER; MODE-LOCKING; NOISE;

D O I：

10.1364/OE.19.017599

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We demonstrate experimentally passive mode-locking of an optoelectronic oscillator which generates a single-cycle radio-frequency pulse train. The measured pulse to pulse jitter was less than 5 ppm of the round-trip duration. The pulse waveform was repeated each round-trip. This result indicates that the relative phase between the pulse envelope and the carrier wave is autonomously locked. The results demonstrate, for the first time, that single-cycle pulses can be directly generated by a passive mode-locked oscillator. The passive mode-locked optoelectronic oscillator is important for developing novel radars and radio-frequency pulsed sources and it enables studying directly the physics of single-cycle pulse generation. (C) 2011 Optical Society of America

引用

页码：17599 / 17608

页数：10

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