A tunable optical domain microwave filter suitable for wideband channelizing

Author

Burger, J.P. ; Steier, W.H. ; Dubovitsky, S. ; Tishinin, D. ; Uppal, K. ; Dapkus, P.D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng.-Electrophys., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

324

Abstract

We present the experimental demonstration of a novel narrowband optical domain RF filter based on four-wave mixing (FWM) in a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). With the advent of high bandwidth, low V, electro-optical modulators, it has become feasible to modulate a very broad band RF signal (100 GHz) onto an optical carrier and distribute it by fiber with a respectable link gain

Keywords

broadband networks; electro-optical modulation; microwave filters; microwave photonics; multiwave mixing; optical communication equipment; optical filters; optical tuning; semiconductor optical amplifiers; telecommunication channels; electro-optical modulators; fibre link gain; four-wave mixing; high bandwidth; narrowband optical domain RF filter; optical carrier; semiconductor optical amplifier; tunable optical domain microwave filter; very broad band RF signal; wideband channelizing; Electrooptic modulators; Fiber nonlinear optics; Microwave filters; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Wideband;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 2000 Annual Meeting. LEOS 2000. 13th Annual Meeting. IEEE

Conference_Location

Rio Grande

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5947-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2000.890809

Filename

890809