Spectral power enhancement in a 100 GHz photonic millimeter-wave generator enabled by spectral line-by-line pulse shaping

F. M. Kuo, J. W. Shi, H. C. Chiang, H. P. Chuang, H. K. Chiou, C. L. Pan, N. W. Chen, H. J. Tsai, C. B. Huang

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Abstract

We report generation of high-modulation-depth photonic millimeter-wave (MMW) waveforms by applying line-by-line pulse shaping on a phase-modulated continuous-wave frequency comb. The optimized 20 and 100 GHz optical waveforms are then converted into electrical MMW signals using a near-ballistic uni-traveling-carrier photodiode (NBUTC-PD). A 7.4 dB MMW power enhancement is experimentally achieved by using 2.6 ps optimized pulses at a 100 GHz repetition rate, as compared with excitation by a conventional sinusoidal signal for the NBUTC-PD operated at the same photocurrent. This is in qualitative agreement with a theoretical analysis of spectral power enhancement by optical short pulses comprised of equi-amplitude frequency lines over sinusoidal excitation.

Original languageEnglish
Article number5545369
Pages (from-to)719-727
Number of pages9
JournalIEEE Photonics Journal
Volume2
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010

Keywords

  • Microwave photonics signal
  • optical communications
  • photodetectors
  • pulse shaping

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