Ultra-narrow linewidth dual-cavity opto-mechanical microwave oscillator based on radial guided acoustic modes of single-mode fiber

Abstract

A dual-cavity opto-mechanical microwave oscillator (OM-MO) for microwave photonic (MWP) generation with ultra-narrow linewidth based on radial (R) guided acoustic modes of a single-mode fiber (SMF) is proposed and investigated experimentally. The dual-cavity OM-MO consists of a 5 km SMF main ring, which provides forward stimulated Brillouin scattering (FSBS) gain, and a 300 m SMF subring that achieves single-frequency output of the R07 guided acoustic mode based MWP (R07-MWP) with Vernier effect. At 300 mW 980 nm pump threshold power, the 319.79 MHz R07-MWP is generated by adjusting polarization controllers based on nonlinear polarization rotation effect, corresponding to the 7437th harmonic of the 43 kHz cavity round trip frequency. The 3 Hz ultra-narrow linewidth of R07-MWP is achieved by decreasing the intrinsic linewidth of the passive ring resonator. The acoustic-mode and longitudinal-mode suppression ratios reach 22 and 36 dB, respectively. Within 20 min of the stability experiment, the power and frequency stability fluctuation of the R07-MWP are ±1 dB and ±0.05 MHz, respectively. This ultra-narrow linewidth MWP generation technology has great potential in the communication field, especially in long-distance wireless communication transmission.