Optical frequency up-conversion of UWB monocycle pulse based on pulsed-pump fiber optical parametric amplifier

Author

Li, Jia ; Liang, Yu ; Xu, Xing ; Cheung, Kim K Y ; Wong, Kenneth K Y

Author_Institution

Photonic Systems Research Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Volume

2009-Supplement

fYear

2009

fDate

2-6 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

9

Abstract

We propose a method to realize frequency up-conversion of UWB monocycle pulse using pulsed-pump fiber optical parametric amplifier (OPA). The spectrum of the amplified signal contains many discrete frequency components which are separated by the modulation frequency of the pump. Each frequency components contain the same spectral information as that of the original signal. By selecting the first-order or higher-order frequency components of the amplified signal and beating in the photodetector, up-converted signal at different frequencies are obtained. We demonstrate frequency up-conversion of baseband UWB monocycle pulse from 3-GHz to 19-GHz in the experiment and frequency up-conversion of pseudo-random binary sequence (PRBS) signal from 3-GHz to 60-GHz in the simulation.

Keywords

Frequency modulation; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fibers; Optical modulation; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Photodetectors; Pulse amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; frequency up-conversion; microwave photonics; optical parametric amplifier; ultra-wideband;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition (ACP), 2009 Asia

Conference_Location

Shanghai, China

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-877-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-877-3

Type

conf

Filename

5405363