Photonic-chip based widely tunable microwave source using a Brillouin opto-electronic oscillator

Merklein, Moritz; Stiller, Birgit; Kabakova, Irina V.; Mutugala, Udara S.; Vu, Khu; Madden, Stephen J.; Eggleton, Benjamin J.; Slavík, Radan

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Photonic-chip based widely tunable microwave source using a Brillouin opto-electronic oscillator

Date

2016

Authors

Eggleton, Benjamin J.

Slavík, Radan

Abstract

We demonstrate the first widely tunable chip-based opto-electronic microwave source based on stimulated Brillouin scattering. The output frequency can be tuned over 40 GHz and the phase-noise performance is comparable to high-range laboratory RF sources.