An optical millimeter-wave generation scheme based on two parallel dual-parallel Mach-Zehnder modulators and polarization multiplexing

被引：33

作者：

Li, Xuan ^{[1
]}

Zhao, Shanghong ^{[1
]}

Zhu, Zihang ^{[1
]}

Gong, Bing ^{[1
]}

Chu, Xingchun ^{[1
]}

Li, Yongjun ^{[1
]}

Zhao, Jing ^{[1
]}

Liu, Yun ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Air Force Engn Univ, Sch Informat & Nav, Xian, Peoples R China

来源：

JOURNAL OF MODERN OPTICS | 2015年 / 62卷 / 18期

基金：

中国国家自然科学基金;

关键词：

millimeter-wave signal generation; frequency multiplication; dual-parallel Mach-Zehnder modulator; PHOTONIC GENERATION; FREQUENCY; SIGNAL; FILTER; RADIO;

D O I：

10.1080/09500340.2015.1045948

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

A novel filterless optical millimeter-wave signal generation scheme is proposed. In the scheme, the undesired sidebands are suppressed using two parallel dual-parallel Mach-Zehnder modulators (MZMs) with different modulation indexes and polarization multiplexing, and frequency multiplication factor as high as 16 can be achieved. Simulation results show that 80, 120, and 160 GHz signals are generated through a 10 GHz RF signal using the proposed method, and the performance of the generated signals is good when commercially available MZMs with extinction ratio of 20-30 dB are used. The scheme has large tunability of modulation index for frequency octupling and 12-tupling signals generation and high stability against the RF driving voltage deviation for frequency 16-tupling generation.

引用

页码：1502 / 1509

页数：8

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