Author(s): Wang, L (Wang, Lu); Li, GY (Li, Guangyi); Hao, TF (Hao, Tengfei); Zhu, S (Zhu, Sha); Li, M (Li, Ming); Zhu, NH (Zhu, Ninghua); Li, W (Li, Wei)

Source: OPTICS LETTERS Volume: 45 Issue: 22 Pages: 6190-6193 DOI: 10.1364/OL.411563 Published: NOV 15 2020

Abstract: We report a photonic scheme to generate multiband and multi-format microwave signals based on a commercial dual-polarization Mach-Zehnder modulator (DP-MZM). The key novelty of this work is the compact signal generator benefitting from the single modulator and the flexible multi-format signals at the multiband. The upper Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) of the DP-MZM is used to generate an optical frequency comb, while the lower MZM is driven by baseband electrical coding or single-chirp signal to obtain the multi-format modulated optical signal. The proposed scheme is theoretically analyzed and experimentally demon-strated. A multiband phase-coded microwave signal with a bit rate of 2 Gb/s and complementary linearly chirped microwave waveform pairs with a time duration of 1 mu s and a bandwidth of 2 GHz have been successfully generated. The performance of pulse compression of generated signals is also demonstrated. (C) 2020 Optical Society of America

Accession Number: WOS:000591012000020

PubMed ID: 33186947

Author Identifiers:

Author        Web of Science ResearcherID        ORCID Number

Li, Ming                  0000-0001-8959-9619

ISSN: 0146-9592

eISSN: 1539-4794

Full Text: https://www.osapublishing.org/ol/abstract.cfm?uri=ol-45-22-6190