Optoelectronic parametric oscillator

Tengfei Hao; Qizhuang Cen; Shanhong Guan; Wei Li; Yitang Dai; Ninghua Zhu; Ming Li

doi:10.1038/s41377-020-0337-5

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Optoelectronic parametric oscillator

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- Optoelectronic parametric oscillator
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 9, Issue 4, Pages: 1059-1068(2020)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China
  2.School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  3.State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
- Author bio：
  
  Yitang Dai (ytdai@bupt.edu.cn)
  Ninghua Zhu (nhzhu@semi.ac.cn)
  Ming Li (ml@semi.ac.cn)
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1038/s41377-020-0337-5
  CLC：
- Published：2020，
  
  Published Online：15 June 2020，
  
  Received：26 February 2020，
  
  Revised：19 May 2020，
  
  Accepted：25 May 2020
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Hao, T. F. et al. Optoelectronic parametric oscillator. Light: Science & Applications, 9, 1059-1068 (2020).
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Hao, T. F. et al. Optoelectronic parametric oscillator. Light: Science & Applications, 9, 1059-1068 (2020). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-020-0337-5.

摘要

Abstract

Oscillators are one of the key elements in various applications as a signal source to generate periodic oscillations. Among them

an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) is a driven harmonic oscillator based on parametric frequency conversion in an optical cavity

which has been widely investigated as a coherent light source with an extremely wide wavelength tuning range. However

steady oscillation in an OPO is confined by the cavity delay

which leads to difficulty in frequency tuning

and the frequency tuning is discrete with the minimum tuning step determined by the cavity delay. Here

we propose and demonstrate a counterpart of an OPO in the optoelectronic domain

i.e.

an optoelectronic parametric oscillator (OEPO) based on parametric frequency conversion in an optoelectronic cavity to generate microwave signals. Owing to the unique energy-transition process in the optoelectronic cavity

the phase evolution in the OEPO is not linear

leading to steady single-mode oscillation or multimode oscillation that is not bounded by the cavity delay. Furthermore

the multimode oscillation in the OEPO is stable and easy to realize owing to the phase control of the parametric frequency-conversion process in the optoelectronic cavity

while stable multimode oscillation is difficult to achieve in conventional oscillators such as an optoelectronic oscillator (OEO) or an OPO due to the mode-hopping and mode-competition effect. The proposed OEPO has great potential in applications such as microwave signal generation

oscillator-based computation

and radio-frequency phase-stable transfer.

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