Microwave signal generation based on frequency multiplication with fiber ring loop modulation and microwave photonic filters

Shiwei Zhang; Hao Chen; Zuowei Xu; Congxian Wu; Kaijun Che; Hongyan Fu

doi:10.3788/COL201513.S20601

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Chinese Optics Letters
Vol. 13, Issue Suppl., S20601 (2015)

Microwave signal generation based on frequency multiplication with fiber ring loop modulation and microwave photonic filters

Shiwei Zhang, Hao Chen, Zuowei Xu, Congxian Wu, Kaijun Che, and Hongyan Fu^*

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Department of Electronic Engineering, Xiamen University, Haiyun Campus, Xiamen 361005, China

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Shiwei Zhang, Hao Chen, Zuowei Xu, Congxian Wu, Kaijun Che, Hongyan Fu. Microwave signal generation based on frequency multiplication with fiber ring loop modulation and microwave photonic filters[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2015, 13(Suppl.): S20601 Copy Citation Text

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Abstract

In this Letter, microwave generation based on frequency multiplication with fiber ring loop modulation and microwave photonic filters is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. High-order microwave harmonics can be generated and enhanced by the fiber ring loop modulation formed by incorporating a Mach–Zehnder modulator (MZM) into a fiber ring structure. Cascaded fiber ring based microwave photonic filters (FRMPFs) are adopted to filter out the desirable harmonics. In our work, with a driving signal of 2.835 GHz, the fourth-order harmonic with a frequency of 11.34 GHz is generated by using two cascaded FRMPFs.