On the Optoelectronic Oscillators

OEO (OptoElectronics Oscillators) 

Integrated Microwave Photonics

Components of OEO

 1. Laser Diode 

2. Electrooptic Modulator (phase modulator or mach zehnder modulator)

3 Ring resonator (All pass microring resonator, Add Drop microring Resonator)

4. PhotoDiode

5. LNA

6. Filter

7. Coupler


Terms of OEO

1. Phase Noise

2. Frequency Spectral Range (FSR)

3. SMSR

4. 3dB  Electro Optic bandwidth

5. Q factor

6. Power

7. Vpi

8. Extinction Ratio

9. Insertion Loss

10. Side Mode Spacing

11. Coupling Power Ratio

12. Group Index

13. Effective Index

14.RIN

Materials needed for OEO

1. Silica

2. Indium Phosphide (InP)

3. Silicon on Insulator

4. Lithium Niobate on Insulator

5. Thin Film Lithium Niobate 


Methods of Fabrications

1. Heterogeneous 

2. Hybrid

3. Monolithic

Terms in Fabrication

1. E beam Lithography

2. Inductively Coupled Plasma etching Process

3. Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD)

4. E beam Evaporation

All about rings.

1. All pass microring resonator


2. Add Drop microring Resonator

The add drop microring resonator has two coupling coefficients called k1 and k2. It has also two transmission coefficients t1 and t2. When the coupling coefficient becomes equal to the losses in the ring resonator then that is called critical coupling coefficient. The critical coupling coefficient is considered as k1=a.k2 for add drop ring resonator. 

There are multiple characteristic parameters in microring resonators which are given below.

1. Q factor

2. FWHM

3. Extinction Ratio

4. Finess

5. Coupling Coefficient. 


The transfer function of add drop microring resonator  is given below. 




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