KEYWORDS: Signal detection, Frequency combs, Signal processing, Analog to digital converters, Optical filters, Tunable filters, Modulators, Electronic filtering, Detection theory, Signal filtering
This work discusses simulation results for signal deteriorations arising from a higher carrier in a 3-line optical frequency comb based high bandwidth sampling system in terms of the key performance indicators such as root-mean-square error (RMSE), signal-to-noise and distortion ratio (SINAD), and the effective number of bits (ENOB).
Increasing data rates in the wireless access require high-bandwidth signal processing, which might be problematic for electronics. One solution is provided by high-bandwidth photonic signal processing in integrated silicon photonic devices. The transformation of electrical into optical signals and sometimes the photonic signal processing itself require a modulator. Especially silicon photonic ring modulators have the potential to significantly enhance the signal processing performance for large-scale integrated photonic circuits, since they have a very low footprint and power consumption. Nevertheless, densely packed integrated photonic devices show thermal crosstalk, which may lead to problems of heat dissemination in the chips. Here we will show, that a deep trench is a suitable method to avoid this problem. We present simulation results of crosstalk mitigation for ring modulators and show the improvement in the transmission characteristics.
We investigate small peptides using standard terahertz (THz) time-domain spectroscopy. As a test set we examine the tripeptides glutathione, gly-gly-gly and enalapril maleate at room temperature. While earlier investigations of short-chain polypeptides with a conventional FTIR spectrometer were performed at higher THz frequencies, we present first measurements between 150 GHz and 2 THz and compare our measurements to density functional theory (DFT) calculations in order to assign the measured resonances to distinct molecular motions. DFT calculations obtained for a single molecule (glutathione), dimers (gly-gly-gly) and ion pairs (enalapril maleate) coupled via H-bonds, reproduce correctly the number of resonances observed in the experiment.
We have used device structures based on the well-established technology for producing high electron mobility transistors to modulate the amplitude and the phase of broadband terahertz pulses. The application of an external gate voltage allowed us to deplete the two-dimensional electron gas, which in turn increased the transmission of the device to THz radiation. In differential transmission experiments at room-temperature we achieved a typical amplitude change of 2-3 % for THz pulses passing through the device. In this paper we present the results of a detailed investigation of the device behavior including I-V characteristics and capacitance measurements that reflect the depletion of the two-dimensional electron gas. In a first demonstration experiment we were also able to use the modulator for audio signal transmission over a THz communication channel. To do this we modified a standard THz time-domain spectrometer to transmit signals up to 25 kHz imprinted onto a 75 MHz train of broadband THz pulses with frequencies between
100 GHz and 3 THz.
Martin Breede, Tilman Hoener zu Siederdissen, Josef Kovacs, Jens Struckmeier, Joerg Zimmermann, Stefan Hoffmann, Martin Hofmann, Thomas Kleine-Ostmann, Pascal Knobloch, Martin Koch, Jan-Peter Meyn
We present and analyze a new concept for a semiconductor laser with a Fourier-transform external cavity that allows for purely electronically operated wavelength tuning, simultaneous control of multiple gain media within one shared external cavity, and simultaneous multi-wavelength emission from one laser diode only. We investigate the new setup with particular focus on simultaneous two or even multi-wavelength operation from the same diode. The simultaneity of the two modes is unambiguously proven by sum-frequency generation. In addition, we discuss applications of the simultaneous two-wavelength operation with a particular focus on Terahertz difference frequency generation in combination with a photomixer.
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