Ultra wideband frequency chirp millimetre-wave signal generation using electro-optic modulation

Author

Kawanishi, Tetsuya ; Sakamoto, Takahide ; Kanno, Atsushi

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Koganei, Japan

fYear

2011

fDate

26-30 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We describe ultra wideband frequency control of millimetre-wave and lightwave signals using optical single-sideband modulation. Precise and rapid frequency control can be achieved by digital arbitrary waveform generation and high-speed electro-optic modulation. Frequency multiplication in optical modulators also plays important roles. Ultra-wideband frequency chirp signals from 9.6 GHz to 16 GHz, which were generated by using a computer controlled arbitrary waveform generator and a wideband frequency multiplier, were fed to an optical single-sideband modulator consisting of two sub Mach-Zehnder interferometers.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; electro-optical modulation; frequency control; frequency multipliers; microwave photonics; millimetre wave generation; optical control; waveform generators; Mach-Zehnder interferometers; computer controlled digital arbitrary waveform generator; frequency 9.6 GHz to 16 GHz; frequency multiplication; high-speed electro-optic modulation; lightwave signals; optical single-sideband modulation; ultrawideband frequency chirp millimetre-wave signal generation; ultrawideband frequency control; wideband frequency multiplier; Frequency modulation; High speed optical techniques; Integrated optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Modulation; high-speed transmission; waveguide device;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2011 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Stockholm

ISSN

2161-2056

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0881-7

Electronic_ISBN

2161-2056

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2011.5971120

Filename

5971120