Optoelectronics Letters, Volume. 13, Issue 4, 259(2017)

A widely tunable microwave photonic notch filter with adjustable bandwidth based on multi-wavelength fiber laser

Xin-yang LI1, Ye CAO1、*, Dong XU2, Zheng-rong TONG2, and Jing-peng YANG2
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  • 1School of Electronic Information, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071, China
  • 2Communication Devices and Technology Engineering Research Center, School of Computer and Communication Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, China
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    A widely tunable microwave photonic notch filter with adjustable bandwidth based on multi-wavelength fiber laser is proposed and demonstrated. The multi-wavelength fiber laser generates the multi-taps of the microwave photonic filter (MPF). In order to obtain notch frequency response, a Fourier-domain optical processor (FD-OP) is introduced to control the amplitude and phase of the optical carrier and phase modulation sidebands. By adjusting the polarization controller (PC), different numbers of taps are got, such as 6, 8, 10 and 12. And the wavelength spacing of the multi-wavelength laser is 0.4 nm. The bandwidth of the notch filter is changed by adjusting the number of taps and the corresponding bandwidths are 4.41 GHz, 3.30 GHz, 2.64 GHz and 2.19 GHz, respectively. With the additional phase shift introduced by FD-OP, the notch position is continuously tuned in the whole free spectral range (FSR) of 27.94 GHz. The center frequency of the notch filter can be continuously tuned from 13.97 GHz to 41.91 GHz.

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    LI Xin-yang, CAO Ye, XU Dong, TONG Zheng-rong, YANG Jing-peng. A widely tunable microwave photonic notch filter with adjustable bandwidth based on multi-wavelength fiber laser[J]. Optoelectronics Letters, 2017, 13(4): 259

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    Paper Information

    Received: Mar. 28, 2017

    Accepted: Apr. 20, 2017

    Published Online: Sep. 13, 2018

    The Author Email: Ye CAO (cynever@163.com)

    DOI:10.1007/s11801-017-7071-0

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