Photonic generation of millimeter-wave signals with eighteen multiplied frequency using cascaded FWM in a single SOA

Author

Yafei Sun ; Lianshan Yan ; Wei Pan ; Bin Luo ; Xihua Zou ; Zhiyu Chen ; Yinghui Guo

Author_Institution

Center for Inf. Photonics & Commun., Southwest Jiaotong Univ., Chengdu, China

fYear

2013

fDate

26-28 July 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

A novel technique for eighteen multiplied frequency is proposed and investigated based on an intensity modulator and cascaded four-wave-mixing (FWM) effects in a single semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). The results show that the 36-GHz and 90-GHz millimeter waves are achieved when the input frequencies are 2-GHz and 5GHz, respectively.

Keywords

frequency multipliers; masers; millimetre wave generation; millimetre wave lasers; multiwave mixing; optical harmonic generation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; SOA; cascaded FWM; cascaded four-wave-mixing effect; frequency 2 GHz; frequency 36 GHz; frequency 5 GHz; frequency 90 GHz; frequency multiplication; intensity modulator; millimeter-wave signal; photonic generation; semiconductor optical amplifier; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical pumping; Photonics; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Four-wave-mixing (FWM); Frequency multiplication; Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) Millimeter wave (mm-wave);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN), 2013 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICOCN.2013.6617229

Filename

6617229