Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 10, Issue 4, 042501(2012)

Photonic generation of high quality frequency-tunable millimeter wave and terahertz wave

Yu Ji, Yan Li, Fangzheng Zhang, Jian Wu, Xiaobing Hong, Kun Xu, Wei Li, and Jintong Lin

A scheme for the photonic generation of frequency-tunable millimeter wave and terahertz wave signals based on a highly flat optical frequency comb is proposed and demonstrated experimentally. The frequency comb is generated using two cascaded phase modulators (PMs) and an electro-absorption modulator (EAM). The frequency comb covers a 440-GHz frequency range, with 40-GHz comb spacing and less than 2-dB amplitude variation. By filtering out two of the comb lines with 50 dB out of the band suppression ratio, high frequency-purity and low phase noise millimeter wave or terahertz wave signals are successfully generated, with frequencies ranging from 40 to 440 GHz.

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Yu Ji, Yan Li, Fangzheng Zhang, Jian Wu, Xiaobing Hong, Kun Xu, Wei Li, Jintong Lin. Photonic generation of high quality frequency-tunable millimeter wave and terahertz wave[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2012, 10(4): 042501

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Received: Aug. 22, 2011

Accepted: Oct. 13, 2011

Published Online: Jan. 5, 2012

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DOI:10.3788/col201210.042501

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