Modeling opto-electronic oscillators

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Levy, Etgar C., Moshe Horowitz, Curtis R. Menyuk, Olukayode Okusaga, Weimin Zhou, and Gary M. Carter. “Modeling Opto-Electronic Oscillators.” In Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/International Quantum Electronics Conference (2009), Paper JThE83, JThE83. Optica Publishing Group, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1364/CLEO.2009.JThE83.

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This work was written as part of one of the author's official duties as an Employee of the United States Government and is therefore a work of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 105, no copyright protection is available for such works under U.S. Law.
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Abstract

A comprehensive model to accurately study phase noise and dynamics in optoelectronic oscillators is presented. The model results are compared to experiments. The comparison shows that the flicker noise increases as the cavity length increases.