A Proposal and Demonstration for Photonic Generation of a Microwave Signal by Incorporating a Microring Resonator
CHEN Guo-Jie1,2, HUANG De-Xiu1, ZHANG Xin-Liang1, CAO Hui2, CHEN Wei-Cheng2
1Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 4300742School of Science, Foshan University, Foshan 528000
A Proposal and Demonstration for Photonic Generation of a Microwave Signal by Incorporating a Microring Resonator
CHEN Guo-Jie1,2, HUANG De-Xiu1, ZHANG Xin-Liang1, CAO Hui2, CHEN Wei-Cheng2
1Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 4300742School of Science, Foshan University, Foshan 528000
摘要A proposal for photonic generation of a microwave signal is presented by employing a dual wavelength erbium-doped fibre ring laser. In the laser, a microring resonator is cascaded with a tunable bandpass filter to serve as a dual-wavelength selector, an unpumped polarization maintaining erbium-doped fibre is used as a saturable absorber. By replacing the microring resonator with a delay interferometer to verify the proposal, a wavelength-tunable dual wavelength single longitudinal mode laser is demonstrated, and a microwave signal at 10.01GHz with a linewidth of less than 25kHz is obtained by beating the two wavelengths at a photodetector.
Abstract：A proposal for photonic generation of a microwave signal is presented by employing a dual wavelength erbium-doped fibre ring laser. In the laser, a microring resonator is cascaded with a tunable bandpass filter to serve as a dual-wavelength selector, an unpumped polarization maintaining erbium-doped fibre is used as a saturable absorber. By replacing the microring resonator with a delay interferometer to verify the proposal, a wavelength-tunable dual wavelength single longitudinal mode laser is demonstrated, and a microwave signal at 10.01GHz with a linewidth of less than 25kHz is obtained by beating the two wavelengths at a photodetector.
(Infrared, submillimeter wave, microwave and radiowave instruments and equipment)
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CHEN Guo-Jie;HUANG De-Xiu;ZHANG Xin-Liang;CAO Hui;CHEN Wei-Cheng. A Proposal and Demonstration for Photonic Generation of a Microwave Signal by Incorporating a Microring Resonator[J]. 中国物理快报, 2009, 26(3): 34207-034207.
CHEN Guo-Jie, HUANG De-Xiu, ZHANG Xin-Liang, CAO Hui, CHEN Wei-Cheng. A Proposal and Demonstration for Photonic Generation of a Microwave Signal by Incorporating a Microring Resonator. Chin. Phys. Lett., 2009, 26(3): 34207-034207.
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