Experimental investigation of microwave-optoelectronic interactions in a microstrip ring resonator

Author

Gopalakrishnan, Ganesh K. ; Fairchild, Brock W. ; Yeh, C.L. ; Park, Chang-Soo ; Chang, Kai ; Weichold, Mark H. ; Taylor, Henry F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, USA

Volume

39

Issue

12

fYear

1991

fDate

12/1/1991 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2052

Lastpage

2060

Abstract

Microwave optoelectronic mixing on a semi-insulating gallium arsenide substrate performed by monolithically integrating Schottky diode photodetectors into a microstrip ring resonator is discussed. When operated in the resistive mixing mode, a low frequency difference signal is extracted from the bias pad of the circuit. In the parametric mode, both degenerate and non-degenerate parametric amplification of an optical carrier signal takes place. The circuit shows good potential for application in wide-band fiberoptic systems

Keywords

Schottky-barrier diodes; microwave parametric amplifiers; photodetectors; resonators; strip line components; AuGeNi-GaAs; Schottky diode photodetectors; degenerate amplification; low frequency difference signal; microstrip ring resonator; microwave optoelectronic mixing; microwave-optoelectronic interactions; monolithic integration; nondegenerate parametric amplification; optical carrier signal; parametric mode; resistive mixing mode; semiinsulating GaAs substrate; wide-band fiberoptic systems; Circuits; Frequency; Gallium arsenide; Microstrip resonators; Nonlinear optics; Optical mixing; Optical ring resonators; Photodetectors; Schottky diodes; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9480

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/22.106545

Filename

106545