High accurate and broadband optical comb generation using MZM-based flat comb generator and soliton compression

Author

Morohashi, Isao ; Sakamoto, Takahide ; Sotobayashi, Hideyuki ; Kawanishi, Tetsuya ; Hosako, Iwao

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Koganei, Japan

fYear

2009

fDate

21-25 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We report on 20 THz-wide optical frequency comb generation for wide-rage tunable MM and THz wave generation. A broadband comb signal was created from CW light by using a Mach-Zehnder modulator and a dispersion-flattened dispersion-decreasing fiber (DF-DDF). A comb signal was drastically broadened to 20 THz by increasing the input power to the DF-DDF. Our method is based on optical modulation using a Mach-Zehnder modulator, so that it is possible to generate comb signals with high-stable and high-accuracy.

Keywords

microwave photonics; optical fibre dispersion; optical frequency conversion; optical modulation; optical solitons; terahertz wave generation; Mach-Zehnder modulator; broadband optical comb generation; dispersion flattened dispersion decreasing fiber; flat comb generator; frequency 20 THz; millimeter wave generation; optical frequency comb generation; soliton compression; terahertz wave generation; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Fiber nonlinear optics; Frequency; Nonlinear optical devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical modulation; Optical pulse generation; Optical solitons; RF signals; Signal generators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves, 2009. IRMMW-THz 2009. 34th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Busan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5416-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5417-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIMW.2009.5325731

Filename

5325731