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Optical generation of 16-tupling millimeter-wave signal without optical filtering

XIAOGANG CHEN1,* , LU XIA1, DEXIU HUANG2

Affiliation

  1. School of Electrical and Photoelectronic Engineering, Changzhou Institute of Technology, Changzhou, Jiangsu, 213032 China
  2. Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (WNLO) , Huazhong University of Sci & Tech, Wuhan, Hubei, 430074 China

Abstract

A novel scheme is proposed for frequency 16-tupling millimeter-wave generation based on two cascaded integrated dual-parallel Mach-Zehnder modulators (MZM) without optical filtering. The impact of imperfect extinction ratio (EXT) of MZM on system performance is investigated. The improvement of system performance through MZM modulation index optimization is also analyzed. Simulation verifications are provided for the microwave frequency multiplication scheme. In addition, the impact of MZM bias drift and phase drift on optical mm-wave generation is analyzed..

Keywords

Microwave Photonics, 16-tupling, Mach-Zehnder modulators, Extinction ratio, Modulation index optimization.

Citation

XIAOGANG CHEN, LU XIA, DEXIU HUANG, Optical generation of 16-tupling millimeter-wave signal without optical filtering, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 12, 7-8, July-August 2018, pp.455-459 (2018).

Submitted at: July 19, 2017

Accepted at: Aug. 9, 2018