Photonic generation of microwave pulses with wide frequency multiplication tuning range

Author

Jia Haur Wong ; Aditya, Shivam ; Peng Huei Lim ; Shum, Perry Ping ; Huy Quoc Lam ; Lee, Kenneth Eng Kian

Author_Institution

Electr. & Electron. Eng. Dept., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2012

fDate

13-16 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an approach to generate microwave pulses with wide frequency multiplication tuning range based on the unbalanced temporal pulse shaping (TPS) principle. The key to achieving a wide tuning range is a linearly chirped fiber Bragg grating (LCFBG) with programmable dispersion which is incorporated in an unbalanced TPS system. We experimentally demonstrate generation of microwave pulses whose centre frequency can be tuned from 3.7 GHz to 9.2 GHz.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; microwave photonics; optical fibre dispersion; optical pulse generation; optical pulse shaping; optical tuning; LCFBG; frequency 3.7 GHz to 9.2 GHz; linearly-chirped fiber Bragg grating; microwave pulse generation; photonic generation; programmable dispersion; unbalanced temporal pulse shaping system; wide-frequency multiplication tuning range; Dispersion; Frequency conversion; Frequency modulation; Microwave communication; Microwave photonics; Radio frequency; Tuning; Mach-Zehnder moduator; Mode-locked laser; linearly chirped fiber Bragg grating; temporal pulse shaping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics Global Conference (PGC), 2012

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2513-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PGC.2012.6457980

Filename

6457980