Long-haul analog photonics

VJ Urick, F Bucholtz, JD McKinney… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2011 - opg.optica.org
A paper on long-haul analog photonics is presented using theory and experimental results.
Various analog fiber-optic modulation formats are reviewed, including intensity modulation …

Enhanced spurious-free dynamic range using mixed polarization in optical single sideband Mach–Zehnder modulator

B Masella, B Hraimel, X Zhang - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2009 - opg.optica.org
We analyze in theory, simulation, and experiment the spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR)
for a radio-over-fiber system using an optical single sideband (OSSB) Mach–Zehnder …

Coherent PM optical link employing ACP-PPLL

Y Li, P Herczfeld - Journal of lightwave technology, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper concerns the modeling, design, and experimental validation of coherent phase
modulated RF/optical link employing an ACP-PPLL linear phase demodulator. From …

Wideband OPLL photonic integrated circuit enabling ultrahigh dynamic range PM RF/photonic link

Y Li, L Xu, S Jin, J Rodriguez, T Sun, P Herczfeld - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
The RF/photonic link is the basic element of microwave photonics. Previous RF photonic
links often rely on optical intensity modulation. The inherent modulation nonlinearity leads to …

Power-efficient Kerr frequency comb based tunable optical source

S Arafin, A Simsek, SK Kim, W Liang… - IEEE Photonics …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We designed and demonstrated a power-efficient highly integrated photonic system,
requiring a total power consumption of 1.7 W and producing a spectrally pure coherent …

High linearity InP-based phase modulators using a shallow quantum-well design

Y Li, R Wang, A Bhardwaj, S Ristic… - IEEE Photonics …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Phase modulator nonlinearity is a major problem for implementing an optical phase-locked
loop (OPLL) phase demodulator. In this letter, we report an improved InP phase modulator …

Long-haul analog links tutorial

VJ Urick - 2010 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Presents a collection of slides covering the following topics: analog versus digital fibre
optics; applications of long-haul RF photonics; components and IMDD metrics; single …

Phase-modulated microwave-photonic link with optical-phase-locked-loop enhanced interferometric phase detection

J Zhang, AN Hone, TE Darcie - Journal of lightwave technology, 2008 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a novel approach for coherently detecting microwave-modulated optical
phase through interferometric phase detection and an optical phase-locked loop (OPLL). An …

Analysis of a class-B microwave-photonic link using optical frequency modulation

PF Driessen, TE Darcie, J Zhang - Journal of lightwave technology, 2008 - opg.optica.org
A class-B microwave-photonic link using optical frequency modulation (FM) and fiber-Bragg
gratings (FBGs) is analyzed and results verified with measurements. Input voltage is …

Efficient RF frequency down-conversion using coupled quantum-well optical phase modulator

R Wang, A Bhardwaj, Y Li - IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Frequency down-conversion is important to radar front-end. In this work, we achieve efficient
RF frequency down-conversion using a coupled quantum-well optical phase modulator …