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Low noise supercontinuum generated in the photonic crystal fiber for microwave photonic applications

X. SANG1,* , C. YU1, JIANXIN MA1, X. XIN1, K. WANG1, Q. ZHANG1

Affiliation

  1. Key Laboratory of Optical Communication and Lightwave Technologies (MOE), Institute of Optical Communication and Lightwave Technologies, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100

Abstract

Low amplitude noise and timing jitter are important for application of supercontinuum sources in radio-over-fiber systems and photonic signal processing of microwave signals. We experimentally demonstrate that supercontinuum generated in the short highly nonlinear normal dispersion photonic crystal fiber (PCF) exhibits lower amplitude noise and timing jitter than that generated in the anomalous dispersion single mode fiber. The supercontinuum generated in the highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber at normal dispersion could be a good solution for applications in microwave photonics.

Keywords

Photonic crystal fiber, Microwave, Low noise, Photonics.

Citation

X. SANG, C. YU, JIANXIN MA, X. XIN, K. WANG, Q. ZHANG, Low noise supercontinuum generated in the photonic crystal fiber for microwave photonic applications, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 3, 2, February 2009, pp.85-88 (2009).

Submitted at: Feb. 1, 2009

Accepted at: Feb. 13, 2009