Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 6, Issue 8, 588(2008)

Quadruple-frequency millimeter-wave generation using second-order rational harmonic mode-locking technique

Fei Huang, Xue Feng, and Xiaoming Liu
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  • State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics/Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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    A novel method for generating quadruple-frequency millimeter-wave (MMW) by using an actively mode-locked fiber ring laser is proposed and demonstrated. In this approach, the optical Mach-Zehnder intensity modulator (MZM) is biased to suppress the odd-order optical sidebands, the fiber laser operates in the second-order rational harmonic mode, and a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) notch filter is used to block the optical carrier. When the MZM is driven by a fixed radio-frequency (RF) source of 10 GHz, a stable MMW signal of 40 GHz with the phase noise better than -76 dBc/Hz at 1-kHz offset is generated.

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    Fei Huang, Xue Feng, Xiaoming Liu. Quadruple-frequency millimeter-wave generation using second-order rational harmonic mode-locking technique[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2008, 6(8): 588

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    Paper Information

    Received: Mar. 11, 2008

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Sep. 2, 2008

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    DOI:10.3788/COL20080608.0588

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