Stepped-Frequency (SF) signal have been successfully employed in many applications including ranging and vital signs detection. Different application scenarios necessitate SF signal sources with different carrier frequencies, driving a high demand for wideband, reconfigurable, multi-band SF signals that exhibit frequency agility across a broad range. However, generating SF signals that cover the carrier frequency ranges of millimeter waves and terahertz bands using traditional electronic methods poses considerable challenges. Here, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a wide-ranging configurable and ultra-low phase noise carrier source based on dual-pump Brillouin cavity, and generate a SF signal using an optical-recirculating frequency shifting loop, and the SF signal has the characteristics of scanning bandwidth predetermined and flexible frequency-hopping rate. Experimental results show that the proposed system can generate a carrier source with phase noise below −115dBc/Hz at 10 kHz offset at a reconfigurable frequency of 260 to 300 GHz, and can generate a SF signal with a sweep bandwidth of 6.4 GHz in a duration of 14.875 µs. Additionally, the frequency-hopping rate of the SF signal can be adjusted, and an increase rate by a factor of 10–20 is experimentally demonstrated via carefully optimizing the time duration relationships of the applied rectangular optical pulses. This work highlights the potential of the proposed system in generating SF signals with reconfigurable carrier frequencies, sweep bandwidths, and frequency-hopping rates, thereby enhancing the applicability of this system across diverse scenarios.
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