Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 6, Issue 8, 588(2008)
Quadruple-frequency millimeter-wave generation using second-order rational harmonic mode-locking technique
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," Chin. Opt. Lett. 6, 588 (2008)
Received: Mar. 11, 2008
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Published Online: Sep. 2, 2008
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