Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 11, Issue 12, 120601(2013)

Tunable multi-wavelength microwave photonic filter based on the superposition of transfer functions

Yang Yu, Xiaoping Zheng, Hanyi Zhang, and Bingkun Zhou

A microwave photonic filter (MPF) with reconfigurability and tunability resulting from the superposition of the transfer functions is proposed. Based on the Vernier effect between the optical frequency combs and the periodic optical filters, each comb line can be mapped into a sub-filter in the electronic field. The sub-filters are superposed to obtain the total transfer function of the MPF. By manipulating a few comb lines, we can reconfigure the passband shape, tune the bandwidth, and adjust the center frequency independently. Experiments verify that the bandwidth can be tuned from 224.8 to 674.3 MHz, and that the center frequency ranges from 1 to 4 GHz.

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Yang Yu, Xiaoping Zheng, Hanyi Zhang, Bingkun Zhou. Tunable multi-wavelength microwave photonic filter based on the superposition of transfer functions[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2013, 11(12): 120601

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Received: Jun. 25, 2013

Accepted: Oct. 17, 2013

Published Online: Dec. 6, 2013

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DOI:10.3788/col201311.120601

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