重复频率可调谐的超低抖动光窄脉冲源的研究  

Research of optical short pulse source with tunable repetition rate and ultra-low timing jitter

作　　者：贾石[1] 于晋龙[1] 王菊[1] 王子雄[1] 陈斌[1] 

机构地区：[1]天津大学电子信息工程学院,天津300072

出　　处：《物理学报》2015年第18期245-249,共5页Acta Physica Sinica

基　　金：国家重点基础研究发展计划(批准号:2012CB315704);国家自然科学基金(批准号:61427817;61405142;61205061)资助的课题~~

摘　　要：提出了一种新型的基于光电振荡器的重复频率可调谐的超低抖动光窄脉冲源.光电振荡器系统可以产生超低相位噪声的微波信号;被该信号调制的直调光经过两次相位调制之后,使光脉冲的啁啾增强;再通过一段色散补偿光纤,光脉冲被进一步压窄.实验中使用YIG可调滤波器,可以得到8—12 GHz内步进为200 MHz的可调谐微波信号,因此光脉冲的重复频率具有可调谐性.当微波信号即脉冲重复频率为9.6 GHz时,测得脉冲宽度为3.7 ps,相位噪声为-130.1 dBc/Hz@10 kHz.由此得出光脉冲的瞬时抖动为60.1 fs(100 Hz—1 MHz),因此该方案产生的光窄脉冲源具有超低的抖动.The highly stable optical short-pulse generator with high repetition rate is widely applied in many fields of optical communications,such as optical packet switching systems,high-speed analog-to-digital converter systems,wavelength division multiplexing networks,high-speed optical sampling systems and optical time division multiplexing networks.The optical short-pulse generator which is adopted in such systems mentioned above should possess high stability,low timing jitter,the tunability of the repetition-rate,and narrow pulse width.So far,most of the optical short pulses have been generated from the actively mode-locked lasers and the phase-modulated continuous wave lasers.However,both of the two methods require an additional microwave signal source.Consequently,the stability of such an optical short-pulse generator is strictly limited by the phase noise and stability of the additional microwave signal source.Since the concept of an optoelectronic oscillator which includes the generation of low noise optical pulses together with an ultra-low phase noise microwave signal was proposed by Yao in 1996,the optical short-pulse generator based on the optoelectronic oscillator has attracted much attention in recent years.According to this approach,Lasri demonstrated a novel,self-starting optoelectronic oscillator based on an electro-absorption modulator in a fiber-extended cavity for generating an optical pulse stream with high-rate and ultra-low jitter capabilities in 2003.In the scheme,the repetition rate of the generated optical pulses is 10 GHz,and the phase noise is-115 dBc/Hz at 10 kHz.Devgan demonstrated an optoelectronic oscillator by using a gain-switched vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser in a fiber-feedback configuration in 2006.The structure can generate a 2-GHz optical pulse stream with 750-fs timing jitter（over 100 Hz-10 MHz range）.In the present paper,a novel optical short-pulse generator with tunable repetition rate and ultra-low timing jitter based on optoelectronic oscillator is demonstrated.Th

关 键 词：重复频率可调谐 超低抖动 光电振荡器 

分 类 号：TN753.2[电子电信—电路与系统]