High-rate and low-jitter optical pulse generation based on an optoelectronic oscillator using a cascaded polarization modulator and phase modulator

A novel optical pulse generator with high-rate and low-jitter is proposed based on the optoelectronic oscillator using a cascaded polarization modulator and phase modulator. Optical pulses with 10 GHz repetition rate and 29 ps width are demonstrated. According to the single-sideband phase noise of the generated microwave signal, 169 fs time jitter of the generated pulses in the 100 Hz to 1 MHz frequency range can be calculated.