Photonic microwave filter using a broadband source sliced by a birefringent optical fiber-based interferometer

Author

Gouraud, H. ; Di Bin, P. ; Billonnet, L. ; Faugeras, P. ; Jarry, B.

Author_Institution

IRCOM, Limoges Univ., France

Volume

2

fYear

2003

Firstpage

1355

Abstract

An experimental and theoretical demonstration of a non-periodic photonic microwave filter is reported. The finite impulse response (FIR) is realized in the optical domain by slicing an optical broadband source with an interferometric scheme based on a birefringent optical fiber. This simple optical operator permits an easy adjustment of the center frequency of the filter with the length of this fiber and opens the potentiality of frequency tunability.

Keywords

FIR filters; birefringence; light interferometers; light sources; microwave filters; microwave photonics; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical fibre filters; tuning; FIR; birefringent optical fiber-based interferometer; filter center frequency; frequency tunability; nonperiodic photonic microwave filter; optical broadband source slicing; optical domain finite impulse response; optical fiber length; optical operator; Band pass filters; Birefringence; Finite impulse response filter; High speed optical techniques; Microwave filters; Optical fiber filters; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 2003 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Philadelphia, PA, USA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7695-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2003.1212622

Filename

1212622