Frontiers of Optoelectronics, Volume. 2, Issue 4, 403(2009)

All-optical filter for simultaneous implementation of microwave bandpass and notch responses based on semiconductor optical amplifier

Enming XU, Xinliang ZHANG*, Lina ZHOU, Yu ZHANG, Yuan YU, Fei WANG, and Dexiu HUANG
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  • Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, College of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
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    An all-optical filter structure to simultaneously implement microwave bandpass and notch filter is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The structure is based on a recirculating delay line (RDL) loop consisting of a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) followed by a tunable narrowband optical filter and a 10∶90 coupler. The converted signal is generated in a wavelength conversion process based on cross-gain modulation of amplified spontaneous emission in the SOA. The converted signal circulating in RDL loop realizes a negative bandpass response. The negative bandpass filter and a broadband allpass filter are synthesized to achieve a notch filter with flat passband which can excise interference with minimal impact on the wanted signal.

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    Enming XU, Xinliang ZHANG, Lina ZHOU, Yu ZHANG, Yuan YU, Fei WANG, Dexiu HUANG. All-optical filter for simultaneous implementation of microwave bandpass and notch responses based on semiconductor optical amplifier[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2009, 2(4): 403

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    Paper Information

    Received: Jul. 30, 2009

    Accepted: Aug. 10, 2009

    Published Online: Oct. 8, 2012

    The Author Email: ZHANG Xinliang (xlzhang@mail.hust.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s12200-009-0060-6

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