• DocumentCode
    644759
  • Title

    Demonstration of THz wave generation up to 700 GHz using Mach-Zehnder-modulator-based flat comb generator

  • Author

    Morohashi, Isao ; Irimajiri, Yoshihisa ; Sakamoto, Takanori ; Kawanishi, Tetsuyas ; Sekine, Norihiko ; Yasui, Motoaki ; Hosako, Iwao

  • Author_Institution
    Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Koganei, Japan
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    1-6 Sept. 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    By photomixing of optical two-tone signals, which was extracted from an optical comb signal generated by a Mach-Zehnder-modulator-based flat comb generator (MZ-FCG), generation of cw-THz signal up to 700 GHz was demonstrated. In this system, the frequency accuracy of the THz signal is decided by that of the rf signal driving the MZ-FCG, so that it is expected that the generated THz signal has extremely high frequency accuracy.
  • Keywords
    feature extraction; microwave photonics; optical modulation; terahertz wave detectors; MZ-FCG; Mach-Zehnder-modulator-based flat comb generator; RF signal; THz wave generation; optical comb signal; optical two-tone signal photomixing; Optical fibers; Optical modulation; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Quantum cascade lasers; RF signals;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz), 2013 38th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Mainz
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IRMMW-THz.2013.6665729
  • Filename
    6665729