Title :
Optical serrodyne frequency shifting using polymer modulators
Author :
Poberezhskiy, I.Y. ; Bortnik, B.J. ; Kim, S.-K. ; Fetterman, H.R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
Serrodyne frequency shifting of continuous optical signals and optical pulses by up to 86 GHz is demonstrated in an electrooptic polymer phase modulator. Current work focuses on increasing the frequency shift using time-compressed sawtooth waveforms.
Keywords :
electro-optical modulation; optical polymers; phase modulation; spectral line shift; continuous optical signals; electrooptic polymer; optical pulses; optical serrodyne frequency shifting; phase modulation; phase modulator; polymer modulators; time-compressed sawtooth waveforms;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
