A simple and stable OFC generating system based on cascaded phase modulators is proposed. As there is no bias drift problem in phase modulator, the cascaded phase modulators based OFC generating system can achieve high amplitude stability only by adjusting the amplitude of the RF signal. The performance of the proposed structure is analyzed by numerical simulation, where 5, 7, 9, 11 OFCs are generated with flatness of 0.64 dB, 0.93 dB, 2.45 dB and 3.19 dB respectively. In addition, a proof-of-concept experiment was also set up, where 5, 7, 9 OFCs were generated with flatness of 0.593 dB, 2.356 dB and 3.924 dB respectively.
A stability improved optical frequency comb (OFC) generation system based on a single integrated polarization multiplexing dual-drive Mach–Zehnder modulator is proposed. Due to the influence of the modulator bias drift on the spectra of the OFC, the amplitude of the OFC spectra would fluctuate with time, which seriously deteriorates the stability of the OFC. The effect of the modulator bias drift on the stability of the OFC is analyzed by theoretical analyses and numerical simulations. A feedback system is proposed to improve the OFC stability. The ratio between the total power of the OFC and the optical carrier power is used as the feedback parameter. In the proof-of-concept experiment, by using the feedback structure, the seven-line OFC stability is experimentally improved from being large than 3 dB within 1.5 h to being below 2 dB more than 4 h.
Optical frequency combs (OFCs) have discrete optical spectra with equidistant spacing and equal intensities over a broad spectral range. In recent year, OFCs have been widely researched in many areas. However, the traditional methods of generating optical frequency comb are suffered from the long-term instability. In this article, a feedback system of the stability improvement of optical frequency comb (OFC) generating system based on a single integrated polarization multiplexing dual-drive Mach-Zehnder modulator (PM-DMZM) is proposed. The effect of the fluctuation of the halfwave voltage on the amplitude of the OFC spectra is analyzed. The proportion between the optical power of OFC and the optical carrier power of OFC is used as a feedback parameter to guarantee the simplicity and effectiveness. The stability of the proposed OFC system based on PM-DMZM is also analyzed by the numerical simulation. The results show that the flatness of 7-line OFC is improved for about 3 dB when only the bias voltage is regarded as the controlled parameter. In addition, the flatness of OFC can be improved for about 10 dB when the bias voltage and the amplitude of the modulated RF signal are all used as the controlled parameters simultaneously.
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