High-frequency waveform generation based on phase manipulation of optical frequency combs and square-law detection

Author

Zhang, Guoqiang ; Zheng, Xiaoping ; Wen, He ; Zhang, Hanyi ; Zhou, Bingkun

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2011

fDate

13-16 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Based on phase manipulation of optical frequency combs and square-law detection of the waveforms, low phase-noise frequency with its tunable repetition frequency ranging from 10GHz to 120GHz is generated using a dispersive medium fed by coherent optical frequency combs with frequency interval controlled by pulse pattern generator. Both temporal waveforms and phase noise are evaluated. The phase noise of generated 40GHz tone is -96.9dBc/Hz at 10 kHz offset.

Keywords

microwave generation; microwave photonics; millimetre wave generation; optical frequency conversion; coherent optical frequency comb; dispersive media; frequency 10 GHz to 120 GHz; frequency interval control; high frequency waveform generation; low phase noise frequency; optical frequency combs; phase manipulation; pulse pattern generator; square law detection; temporal waveform; tunable repetition frequency; Abstracts; Dispersion; optical arbitrary waveform generation; optical frequency comb; phase manipulation; square-law detection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition, 2011. ACP. Asia

Conference_Location

Shanghai

ISSN

2162-108X

Print_ISBN

978-0-8194-8961-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1117/12.904310

Filename

6210802