Microwave-photonic frequency multiplication utilizing optical four-wave mixing and fiber Bragg gratings

Author

Wiberg, Andreas ; Pérez-Millán, Pere ; Andrés, Miguel V. ; Hedekvist, Per Olof

Author_Institution

Dept. of Microtechnol. & Nanosci., Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Goteborg, Sweden

Volume

24

Issue

1

fYear

2006

Firstpage

329

Lastpage

334

Abstract

A novel technique for optical multiplication of a millimeter-wave carrier is presented. It utilizes optical four-wave mixing (FWM) in a highly nonlinear fiber (HNLF) and the filtering properties of matched fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs). The technique includes a sixfold electrical frequency multiplication in the optical domain. In this experiment, the multiplicator is driven electronically at 6.67 GHz, and the created millimeter wave has a frequency of 40 GHz. The generated carrier has a linewidth lower than 3 Hz and a carrier to noise ratio exceeding 50 dB. Furthermore, successful data transmission over the optical fiber of 2.5 Gb/s on the generated millimeter-wave carrier was performed.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; frequency multipliers; microwave photonics; multiwave mixing; optical fibre communication; optical fibre filters; 2.5 Gbit/s; 40 GHz; 6.67 GHz; carrier-noise ratio; fiber Bragg gratings; frequency multiplication; highly nonlinear fiber; microwave photonics; millimeter-wave carrier; optical four-wave mixing; Fiber nonlinear optics; Four-wave mixing; Frequency conversion; Millimeter wave technology; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber filters; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Optical noise; Fiber Bragg gratings; four-wave mixing; microwave photonics; millimeter wave generation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2005.860164

Filename

1589064