• DocumentCode
    1665402
  • Title

    Ultra-wideband gain in microwave photonic links using four-wave mixing

  • Author

    Wall, Walter S. ; Foster, Mark A.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We propose and investigate partially-degenerate four-wave mixing as an efficient and ultrahigh-bandwidth method for improving the microwave gain of analog fiber optic links. A flat 9-dB gain is experimentally demonstrated over an ultra-wideband of 14GHz.
  • Keywords
    microwave photonics; multiwave mixing; radio-over-fibre; ultra wideband technology; analog fiber optic links; frequency 14 GHz; microwave photonic links; partially-degenerate four-wave mixing; ultrawideband gain; Gain; Microwave amplifiers; Microwave filters; Microwave photonics; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber communication; Optical fibers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6326097