All-optical frequency Up-conversion technique utilizing a frequency-doubling optoelectronic oscillator based on electro-absorption modulators

Author

Joo-Young Lee ; Seung-Hun Lee ; Jong-In Song

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. & Commun., Gwangju Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Gwangju, South Korea

fYear

2014

fDate

20-23 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

226

Lastpage

228

Abstract

An all-optical frequency up-converter utilizing electro-absorption modulators (EAMs) based frequency-doubling optoelectronic oscillator (FD-OEO) is experimentally demonstrated. The FD-OEO based on two cascaded EAMs is utilized as a frequency-doubled photonic LO signal generator and an all-optical frequency up-converter. A 21.25 GHz optical RF signal is generated by mixing a frequency-doubled 20 GHz optical LO signal with an 1.25 GHz optical IF signal. The conversion efficiency and the phase noise characteristics of the all-optical frequency up-converter are characterized.

Keywords

electro-optical modulation; electroabsorption; multiwave mixing; optical harmonic generation; optoelectronic devices; oscillators; phase noise; FD-OEO; all-optical frequency up-conversion technique; cascaded EAM; conversion efficiency; electro-absorption modulators; frequency 1.25 GHz; frequency 20 GHz; frequency 21.25 GHz; frequency-doubled optical LO signal mixing; frequency-doubled photonic LO signal generator; frequency-doubling optoelectronic oscillator; optical IF signal; optical RF signal; phase noise characteristics; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical attenuators; Optical feedback; Optical fibers; all-optical freuqency up-conversion; electro-absorption modulator (EAM); freqeuncy-doubling optoelelctronic oscillator (FD-OEO); microwave signal generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Photonics (MWP) and the 2014 9th Asia-Pacific Microwave Photonics Conference (APMP), 2014 International Topical Meeting on

Conference_Location

Sapporo

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWP.2014.6994537

Filename

6994537