Photonic-assisted microwave frequency multiplication improved by optical filtering on a silicon-photonics platform (Conference Presentation)

Daniel Nascimento-Duplat; Hanna Becker; Mircea Balauroiu; Hakimeh Mohammadhosseini; Martijn J. R. Heck

doi:10.1117/12.2546134

9 March 2020 Photonic-assisted microwave frequency multiplication improved by optical filtering on a silicon-photonics platform (Conference Presentation)

Daniel Nascimento-Duplat, Hanna Becker, Mircea Balauroiu, Hakimeh Mohammadhosseini, Martijn J. R. Heck

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Proceedings Volume 11285, Silicon Photonics XV; 112851B (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2546134
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2020, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Silicon-based integrated microwave photonics presents an interesting platform for broadband microwave applications, offering high-speed modulation and a broad selection of devices. We propose and experimentally demonstrate an effective Mach-Zehnder modulator design to generate frequency-multiplied microwave signals. Using a continuous-wave laser signal modulated by an external microwave signal, we demonstrate that by filtering two non-adjacent frequency comb lines, the detected frequency-doubled signal can be improved considerably by suppressing the carrier frequency and unwanted side-band contributions. The demonstrated designs use a 12-GHz and a 21-GHz external driving signal to generate respectively a 24-GHz and a 42-GHz frequency doubled MW signals.

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Daniel Nascimento-Duplat, Hanna Becker, Mircea Balauroiu, Hakimeh Mohammadhosseini, and Martijn J. R. Heck "Photonic-assisted microwave frequency multiplication improved by optical filtering on a silicon-photonics platform (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 11285, Silicon Photonics XV, 112851B (9 March 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2546134

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