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

Yimin Huang1, Wenjie Liu1, Ya Guo2, Junbin Liu1, Youwen Zhang3, Yuehui Sun1, Lianglun Cheng4, and Yuncai Wang1、*
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  • 1School of Information Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Information Photonics Technology, Guangzhou 510006, Guangdong , China
  • 2School of Electronics and Information, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, Shaanxi , China
  • 3College of Physics and Optoelectronics, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, Shanxi , China
  • 4School of Automation, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, Guangdong , China
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    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

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    Paper Information

    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)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS202242.1335001

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