Tunable optoelectronic oscillator with 105 finesse Fabry-Perot etalon as a photonic filter and optical frequency reference

A tunable optoelectronic oscillator using a high finesse etalon as both a photonic filter and optical frequency reference is presented. The microwave tone at 10.487 GHz displays fractional frequency instability of 3.3×10
^-10
at 1 s.