Theoretical and experimental study of the phase noise of opto-electronic oscillators based on high quality factor optical resonators

Abstract

In order to improve the phase noise of high purity OEO based on optical resonators, like resonant fibre rings, these oscillators have been theoretically studied in terms of white frequency noise. We present here the optimization of the performances of a fibre ring resonator and the experimental phase noise results we obtained for the OEO based on an optimized very high quality factor optical resonator.