Photonic High-Bandwidth RF Splitter With Arbitrary Amplitude and Phase Offset

Author

Leimeng Zhuang ; Corcoran, B. ; Chen Zhu ; Lowery, Arthur J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Syst. EngineeringElectro-Photonic Interchange Lab., Monash Univ., Clayton, VIC, Australia

Volume

26

Issue

21

fYear

2014

fDate

Nov.1, 1 2014

Firstpage

2122

Lastpage

2125

Abstract

This letter presents an alternative approach to achieve a high-bandwidth RF splitter functionality based on a microwave photonic system. The proposed approach has an arbitrary amplitude and a phase offset between the two outputs. In addition, it features a simple system architecture and easy tuning mechanism. In the experimental demonstration, an instantaneous RF band from 5 to 20 GHz was shown.

Keywords

microwave photonics; optical beam splitters; optical tuning; arbitrary amplitude; frequency 5 GHz to 20 GHz; high-bandwidth RF splitter functionality; instantaneous RF band; microwave photonic system; phase offset; photonic high-bandwidth RF splitter; simple system architecture; tuning mechanism; Microwave filters; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical ring resonators; Optical signal processing; Photonics; Radio frequency; FIR; Microwave photonics; RF coupler; arbitrary filter coefficient; phase shifter;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2014.2349010

Filename

6879428