Stimulated Rayleigh scattering and amplitude-to-phase conversion as a source of length-dependent phase noise in OEOs

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https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0269-8433

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2012-05

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Docherty, Andrew, Curtis R. Menyuk, Olukayode Okusaga, and Weimin Zhou. “Stimulated Rayleigh Scattering and Amplitude-to-Phase Conversion as a Source of Length-Dependent Phase Noise in OEOs.” In 2012 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium Proceedings, 1–5, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1109/FCS.2012.6243594.

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Optical scattering
Optical noise
Integrated optics
UMBC Computational Photonics Laboratory
UMBC Optical Fiber Communications Laboratory
UMBC High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF)
Radio frequency
Laser noise
Phase noise

Abstract

Optical fiber-length-dependent flicker phase noise has been identified as a major limit to the reduction of phase noise in optoelectronic oscillators (OEOs). We demonstrate that in our system the largest contributor to low-frequency flicker noise is from Rayleigh scattering through the fiber combined with amplitude-to-phase conversion in the RF amplifiers.