For monitoring high-speed optical telecom signals and/or spectrally broadened light waves, such as optical frequency combs, it is desired to measure the optical spectra with higher bandwidth and resolution. For the purposes, in this paper, we demonstrate a high-resolution and high-speed optical spectrum analyzer that only relies on a DSP operated at a much lower speed. This spectrum analyzer consists of two-stage spectroscopy systems, which is a diffractive grating system and a sampled heterodyne system. We experimentally demonstrate the spectral measurement with greater than 10-pm resolution at 100-kHz acquisition rate covering bandwidth of 5-GHz.
KEYWORDS: Radio over Fiber, Heterodyning, Signal processing, Double sideband modulation, Single sideband modulation, Single mode fibers, Modulation, Upconversion, Signal detection, Optical fibers
In this paper, we investigate asymmetric heterodyne downconversion, where dual-sideband (DSB) RoF signals are downconverted without experiencing the dispersive fading effects, which allows us higher conversion efficiency (higher RF link gain) and high tolerance against fiber nonlinearity, as well. Two methods for the downconversion are investigated and compared with each other, where dual sidebands allocated on (1) one side, and (2) both sides against the optical carrier frequency are asymmetrically downconverted into the intermediate frequencies and transferred as RF signals.
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