Title :
Optical upconversion of 100 Mb/s BPSK microwave subcarrier signals using an unbalanced Mach-Zehnder interferometer
Author :
Maury, G.F. ; Cabon, B. ; Hilt, A. ; Bigot, J-F Le
Author_Institution :
CNRS, LEMO-ENSERG, Grenoble, France
Abstract :
A new technique for remote upconversion of a 100 Mb/s BPSK microwave subcarrier signal is proposed and demonstrated. It is based on the insertion of an unbalanced Mach-Zehnder interferometer in a microwave fiber-optic link
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; microwave photonics; optical fibre communication; optical frequency conversion; phase shift keying; 100 Mbit/s; BPSK microwave subcarrier signal; microwave fiber optic link; optical upconversion; unbalanced Mach-Zehnder interferometer; Bandwidth; Binary phase shift keying; Fiber nonlinear optics; Frequency; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical mixing; Optical modulation;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Photonics, 2000. MWP 2000. International Topical Meeting on
Conference_Location :
Oxford
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6455-4
DOI :
10.1109/MWP.2000.889817
