Abstract
We present a photonic RF down-converter based on optomechanical oscillation in a silica microtoroid. Preliminary results show that the optomechanical oscillator can simultaneously serve as mixer and local oscillator in photonic RF-receiver architectures.
© 2008 Optical Society of America
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