Tunable RF optical source using harmonic carrier generation

Stephen A. Pappert; Chen Kuo Sun; Richard Joseph Orazi

doi:10.1117/12.271448

10 April 1997 Tunable RF optical source using harmonic carrier generation

Stephen A. Pappert, Chen Kuo Sun, Richard Joseph Orazi

Proceedings Volume 3038, High-Speed Semiconductor Lasers for Communication; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.271448
Event: Photonics West '97, 1997, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

A tunable millimeter wave source is demonstrated using the frequency multiplication properties of a Mach-Zehnder modulator based analog fiber optic link. Extremely low phase noise millimeter wave output signals (minus 86 dBc/Hz at 1 kHz from a 40.96 GHz carrier) have been obtained using harmonic carrier generation by electrically overdriving the Mach-Zehnder modulator. This technique can be useful for high quality signal synthesis to 100 GHz, well beyond the modulation bandwidth of present optical modulators.

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Stephen A. Pappert, Chen Kuo Sun, and Richard Joseph Orazi "Tunable RF optical source using harmonic carrier generation", Proc. SPIE 3038, High-Speed Semiconductor Lasers for Communication, (10 April 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.271448

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