Chinese Journal of Lasers, Volume. 45, Issue 12, 1206002(2018)

Generation of Flat Optical Frequency Comb Based on Asynchronous RF-Signal-Driven Cascaded Phase Modulators

Haoming Liu*, Wei Pan, Bing Lu, and Ge Yu
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  • School of Information Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, Sichuan 611756, China
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    Based on cascaded phase modulators (PM), a scheme to generate a optical frequency comb (OFC) with adjustable comb number and comb spacing is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The sinusoidal radio frequency (RF) signal and its double-frequency signal are used to drive the two cascaded PMs, respectively, simultaneously a small frequency offset is introduced in the second RF signal, and finally a phase-insensitive and high flatness OFC is obtained. The comb number and flatness are regulated by the modulation index of these two cascaded PMs. When the frequency offset is 10 -5 times the frequency of the second RF signal, the flatness of this OFC is less than 3 dB. The experimental results show that the comb numbers are 7, 9, and 11, the comb spacing is 5.5 GHz and 7.5 GHz, and the flatness is smaller than 2.4 dB for the generated OFC.

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    Haoming Liu, Wei Pan, Bing Lu, Ge Yu. Generation of Flat Optical Frequency Comb Based on Asynchronous RF-Signal-Driven Cascaded Phase Modulators[J]. Chinese Journal of Lasers, 2018, 45(12): 1206002

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    Paper Information

    Category: fiber optics and optical communications

    Received: Jun. 14, 2018

    Accepted: Jul. 27, 2018

    Published Online: May. 9, 2019

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    DOI:10.3788/CJL201845.1206002

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