Title :
Optical frequency comb based on cascading intensity modulation for optical arbitrary waveform generation
Author :
Zhou, Xin ; Zheng, Xiaoping ; Wen, He ; Zhang, Hanyi ; Guo, Yili ; Zhou, Bingkun
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
We propose a new method for optical frequency comb (OFC) based on cascading intensity modulation. And then by selecting spectral lines of interest from OFC via optical filters, 10GHz, 20GHz sinusoidal signals with low phase noise and several desirable waveforms are generated.
Keywords :
intensity modulation; optical filters; optical information processing; optical modulation; optical noise; optical pulse generation; phase noise; spectral line intensity; cascading intensity modulation; frequency 10 GHz; frequency 20 GHz; optical arbitrary waveform generation; optical filters; optical frequency comb; phase noise; sinusoidal signals; spectral lines; Microwave filters; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical pulse shaping; Optical signal processing;
Conference_Titel :
Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition (ACP), 2010 Asia
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7111-9
DOI :
10.1109/ACP.2010.5682679
