Since the growing needs of broadband optical frequency combs (OFCs) in many applications, in this paper, a carrier suppressed dual-sideband modulation recirculating frequency shift loop (RFSL) with an additional piece of highly nonlinear fiber (HNLF) is numerically investigated. The numerical results indicate that, thanking to the RFSL scheme, the frequency spacing of OFC can be both widely and precisely tuned over the range of 0.5 - 40 GHz. Moreover, the comb lines generated from RFSL can be then efficiently increased, using four wave mixing effect of HNLF in the simulation, thus the spectrum is further broadened. This work contributes to an effective and compact RFSL scheme for a frequency tunable OFC generation with broadband spectrum.
A novel photonic-assisted time-interleaved sampling analog-to-digital converter (ADC) utilizing photonic radio frequency memory (PRFM) is proposed. The analog modulated optical signal can be duplicated by PRFM and digitized by a slower electronic ADC, thus increasing of equivalent sampling rate to hundreds of times. A microwave photonic link simulation model investigating the performance of sampling an RF signal with a 55ns duration and 500MHz bandwidth was conducted with 4.9 effective number of bits (ENOB). The equivalent sampling rate reached more than 3.6 GSample/s, an increase of over 360 times of the original 10 MSample/s rate.
Signal to noise ratio (SNR) is one of the key parameters in the communication, radar and spectrum perception systems. In this paper, we propose and demonstrate a SNR enhancement receiver with wide processing bandwidth and tunability, where two coherent optical frequency combs (OFCs) based on multi-channel microwave source and electro-optic modulators are incorporated to accomplish simultaneous frequency down-conversion and channelization. By exploiting a dual frequency microwave source as a comb driver, the FSR tunable OFC is demonstrated. The FSR of the laser can be tuned flexibly from 8 GHz to 12 GHz by controlling the controlling the frequency of the microwave source. Multifrequency microwave signal is generated from a 0-10GHz microwave signal source and cloned to the optical domain by a carrier suppressed single sideband modulator (CS-SS) and then down-converted and channelized to the same IF. The IF signals are digitalized and then added in the digital domain. With the proposed receiver a 7.2 dB SNR enhancement has been achieved.
Access to the requested content is limited to institutions that have purchased or subscribe to SPIE eBooks.
You are receiving this notice because your organization may not have SPIE eBooks access.*
*Shibboleth/Open Athens users─please
sign in
to access your institution's subscriptions.
To obtain this item, you may purchase the complete book in print or electronic format on
SPIE.org.
INSTITUTIONAL Select your institution to access the SPIE Digital Library.
PERSONAL Sign in with your SPIE account to access your personal subscriptions or to use specific features such as save to my library, sign up for alerts, save searches, etc.