Chinese Optics Letters, 2017, 15 (1): 010010, Published Online: Jul. 26, 2018
Single-longitudinal-mode, narrow-linewidth oscillation from a high-Q photonic-electronic hybrid cavity
Abstract
We propose a high-Q photonic-electronic hybrid cavity for single-longitudinal-mode narrow-linewidth oscillation, where part of the cavity is in the radio frequency (RF) domain by a pair of frequency conversions. In the RF part, we can easily achieve MHz filtering and a large delay by inserting an electronic filter. In mathematics, we prove that the frequency conversion pair and electronic filter in between can be equivalent to a high-Q optical filter cascaded low-noise optical amplifier as a whole. Finally, the 20-dB bandwidth of oscillation is 1/20 of that of an optical local oscillator, and the maximum phase noise suppression can reach 65 dB.
Ziping Zhang, Yitang Dai, Feifei Yin, Pan Ou, Yue Zhou, Jianqiang Li, Kun Xu. Single-longitudinal-mode, narrow-linewidth oscillation from a high-