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Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2019

Filed:

Jan. 11, 2018
Applicant:

U.s. Army Research Laboratory Attn: Rdrl-loc-i, Adelphi, MD (US);

Inventor:

Weimin Zhou, Rockville, MD (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/04 (2006.01); H04B 10/2537 (2013.01); H04B 10/50 (2013.01); H03B 17/00 (2006.01); H03K 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/2537 (2013.01); H03B 17/00 (2013.01); H03K 3/00 (2013.01); H04B 10/50577 (2013.01); H04B 2210/006 (2013.01);
Abstract

An architecture for an optoelectronic oscillator uses Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) to seed, filter and amplify the oscillation signal in an overlapped oscillator loop for both a RF modulated optical sideband and a SBS signal. By phase matching the RF modulated optical sideband generated by SBS with the SBS signal, the feedback will collapse the bandwidth of the SBS signal and in turn the bandwidth of the Brillouin frequency signal, which also serves as a filter to filter out multiple undesired OEO loop modes. The embodiments herein result in reduced phase noise and increased stability.


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