Conversion Efficiency Characteristics of Cascaded SOA-EAM Frequency Up/Down-Converters

Author

Seo, Jun-Hyuk ; Choi, Chang-Soon ; Kang, Young-Shik ; Chung, Yong-Duck ; Kim, Jeha ; Choi, Woo-Young

Author_Institution

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749, Korea. Tel: +82-2-2123-2874, Fax : +82-2-312-4584

fYear

2005

fDate

12-14 Oct. 2005

Firstpage

107

Lastpage

110

Abstract

We investigate the frequency up- and down-conversion efficiency characteristics of millimeter-wave frequency converters based on cascaded semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) – electroabsorption modulator (EAM) configuration. We define internal frequency conversion efficiencies and characterize them at 60-GHz as functions of EAM bias, optical LO signal power, and optical IF signal power and wavelength.

Keywords

Electroabsorption modulator (EAM); frequency conversion; millimeter wave communication; optical mixers; radio-on-fiber system; semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA); Frequency conversion; Millimeter wave communication; Optical distortion; Optical feedback; Optical filters; Optical frequency conversion; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Radio frequency; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Electroabsorption modulator (EAM); frequency conversion; millimeter wave communication; optical mixers; radio-on-fiber system; semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Photonics, 2005. MWP 2005. International Topical Meeting on

Print_ISBN

89-950043-3-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWP.2005.203551

Filename

1590279