Harmonic distortion in slow light SOA based microwave photonic phase shifters

Author

Gasulla, Ivana ; Sancho, Juan ; Lloret, Juan ; Sales, Salvador ; Capmany, José

Author_Institution

ITEAM Res. Inst., Univ. Politec. de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

fYear

2010

fDate

21-25 March 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We present a theoretical and experimental evaluation of any general order harmonic distortion in a SFL phase shifter based on CPO in a SOA and propose different optical filtering implementations for distortion-free design.

Keywords

distortion; microwave photonics; optical filters; phase shifters; semiconductor optical amplifiers; slow light; coherent population oscillations; fast light propagation; harmonic distortion; inherent nonlinear process; microwave photonic phase shifters; optical filtering; optical phenomena; optical signal group velocity; second order harmonics; selective sideband filtering; semiconductor optical amplifiers; slow light SOA; slow light propagation; tunable broadband RF phase shifters; Filtering; Harmonic distortion; Microwave filters; Optical design; Optical distortion; Optical filters; Phase distortion; Phase shifters; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Slow light;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-884-1

Type

conf

Filename

5465617