Photonic frequency up-converter based on cross polarization modulation effect in a semiconductor optical amplifier

Author

Seung-Hun Lee ; Hyoung-Jun Kim ; Jang-Soo Chun ; Tae-Ho Voon ; Dong-Vu Kim ; Woo-Keun Song ; Jong-In Song

Author_Institution

Dept. of Nanobio Mater. & Electron., Gwangju Inst. of Sci. & Technol. (GIST), Gwangju, South Korea

fYear

2012

fDate

19-22 Nov. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A photonic frequency up-converter based on cross polarization modulation (XPolM) effect in a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) was experimentally demonstrated. Optical radio frequency (RF) signals (f_RF = 57 GHz and 63 GHz) were generated by mixing an optical local oscillator (LO) signal (f_LO = 60 GHz) with an optical intermediate frequency (IF) signal (f_IF = 3 GHz) in the inverted mode and non-inverted modes. The positive conversion efficiency of 8.76 dB was achieved in the inverted mode.

Keywords

laser modes; microwave photonics; optical frequency conversion; optical modulation; radio-over-fibre; semiconductor optical amplifiers; LO; RoF system; SOA; XPolM; cross polarization modulation effect; frequency 3 GHz; frequency 57 GHz; frequency 60 GHz; frequency 63 GHz; inverted mode; noninverted mode; optical intermediate frequency signal; optical local oscillator signal; optical radio frequency signals; photonic frequency upconverter; positive conversion efficiency; semiconductor optical amplifier; Optical attenuators; Optical fibers; Optical modulation; Optical polarization; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; cross polarization modulation (XPolM); photonic frequency up-conversion; radio over fiber (RoF); semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

TENCON 2012 - 2012 IEEE Region 10 Conference

Conference_Location

Cebu

ISSN

2159-3442

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4823-2

Electronic_ISBN

2159-3442

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.2012.6412255

Filename

6412255