Optical Generation of Microwave Signals based on XPM of SOAs in a Fiber Loop

Author

Insua, I. Gonzalez ; Schaeffer, C.G.

Author_Institution

Commun. Lab., Technische Univ. Dresden

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A novel scheme for the generation of a dispersion tolerant DSB-SC optical signal for remote generation of microwave signals is presented. Using the cross-phase modulation effect of a SOA inside a fiber loop upconversion of signals up to 15 GHz was achieved

Keywords

microwave generation; microwave photonics; mirrors; optical fibres; optical frequency conversion; optical modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; SOA; XPM; cross-phase modulation; dispersion tolerant DSB-SC optical signal generation; fiber loop mirror; fiber loop upconversion; microwave photonics; microwave signal generation; optical frequency conversion; optical mixing; semiconductor optical amplifier; Fiber nonlinear optics; Frequency conversion; Microwave generation; Nonlinear optics; Optical coupling; Optical fiber couplers; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Signal generators; Fiber loop mirror; microwave photonics; optical frequency conversion; optical mixing; semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Photonics, 2006. MWP '06. International Topical Meeting on

Conference_Location

Grenoble

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0203-4

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0204-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWP.2006.346572

Filename

4153796