A comparative test of Brillouin amplification and erbium-doped fiber amplification for the generation of millimeter waves with low phase noise properties

Author

Junker, Markus ; Ammann, Max James ; Schwarzbacher, Andreas Thomas ; Klinger, Jens ; Lauterbach, Kai-Uwe ; Schneider, Thomas

Author_Institution

School of Electronic and Communications Eng, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland

Volume

54

Issue

4

fYear

2006

fDate

6/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1576

Lastpage

1581

Abstract

Measurements of phase noise of a 40-GHz carrier signal are presented. The carrier is generated by the amplification of harmonics due to stimulated Brillouin scattering. An analogy to a generation of millimeter waves by an erbium-doped fiber instead of the Brillouin amplifier is investigated and discussed. In our setup, both show a comparable behavior in respect to their noise characteristics.

Keywords

erbium; harmonic generation; millimetre wave generation; optical fibre amplifiers; phase noise; stimulated Brillouin scattering; 40 GHz; Brillouin amplification; Brillouin amplifier; carrier signal; erbium-doped fiber amplification; low phase noise properties; millimeter wave generation; phase noise measurements; stimulated Brillouin scattering; Bandwidth; Brillouin scattering; Frequency; Millimeter wave communication; Millimeter wave technology; Noise measurement; Optical fiber testing; Phase measurement; Phase noise; Signal generators; Brillouin scattering; millimeter-wave generation; phase noise;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9480

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TMTT.2006.871321

Filename

1618578