Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 42, Issue 13, 1335001(2022)
Generation of Full Band Millimeter-Wave White Noise Using Two Incoherent Optical Frequency Comb Mixing Base on Vernier Effect
A method that can generate ultra-wide and flat noise in the whole millimeter-wave band is proposed. Based the vernier effect, the frequency intervals and incoherent light widths of the main ruler and the subordinate ruler are designed by using two incoherent optical frequency combs with different frequency intervals. Simulation results show that the proposed method can generate ultra-wide band and flat full-band millimeter-wave white noise with a frequency range of 30-300 GHz. Experimentally, the amplified spontaneous emission noise is filtered out of two comb-shaped lights with a vernier frequency interval through a programmable filter, and two millimeter-wave white noises are achieved based on uni-traveling-carrier photodetector with two different band widths. The frequency ranges of the two white noises are 130-170 GHz and 280-380 GHz, and the corresponding flatness are ±2.25 dB and ±3.10 dB, which verifies the correctness of the proposed theory.
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Yimin Huang, Wenjie Liu, Ya Guo, Junbin Liu, Youwen Zhang, Yuehui Sun, Lianglun Cheng, Yuncai Wang. Generation of Full Band Millimeter-Wave White Noise Using Two Incoherent Optical Frequency Comb Mixing Base on Vernier Effect[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2022, 42(13): 1335001
Category: Other areas of optics
Received: Nov. 22, 2021
Accepted: Dec. 30, 2021
Published Online: Jul. 15, 2022
The Author Email: Wang Yuncai (wangyc@gdut.edu.cn)