A precisely tunable heterodyne-injection-locked dual-loop optoelectronic oscillator (HIL-DL OEO) is analyzed and experimentally demonstrated. The primary loop, utilizing a narrow bandpass filter, generates a frequency-fixed signal, and the secondary loop, incorporating a yttrium iron garnet filter, outputs the tunable signal. The oscillating signal in each loop experiences frequency translation at an external frequency translation module (FTM) and is then fed to the other loop. The frequency translation at the FTM, which is composed of two mixers and a power splitter, is realized with the help of a tunable low-frequency signal. Thanks to the low-frequency signal, the oscillation frequency in the secondary loop would vary accordingly under injection locking.
We investigate the photomixing Kelly sidebands of soliton mode-locking fiber laser to generate the Terahertz (THz) signal. A simulation model about soliton fiber laser with obvious ±1 order Kelly sidebands is built up to design the sidebands with strong intensity, narrow bandwidth and adjustable spacing. It is found that the parameters of mode-locking fiber laser such as the total dispersion, filtering bandwidths, pump power of the laser play significant roles in determining the features of the ±1 order Kelly sidebands and the relationships between them are investigated. By photomixing the ±1 order sidebands, the experimental result shows that the desired THz signals with high optical-to-THz conversion are generated at frequencies of 0.187THz from the lab-made Yb-doped mode-locking fiber lasers. Well-designed Er-doped ring-cavity soliton fiber laser is used for obtaining THz signal of narrow linewidth with 1.35THz frequency tunable range.
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