Multitap Photonic Microwave Filters With Arbitrary Positive and Negative Coefficients Using a Polarization Modulator and an Optical Polarizer

A novel multitap photonic microwave filter with arbitrary positive and negative coefficients implemented using an electrooptic polarization modulator (PolM) and an optical polarizer is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. In the proposed filter, the optical polarizer is connected at the output of the PolM with its transmission axis aligned at an angle of 45 to one principal axis of the PolM. By adjusting the polarization direction of the input lightwave to be 45 or 135 to one principal axis of the PolM, an inverted or noninverted intensity-modulated optical microwave signal is obtained at the output of the optical polarizer, which leads to the generation of a negative or positive coefficient. A time delay difference between adjacent taps is generated by using a wavelength-dependent delay line. A five-tap photonic microwave filter with arbitrary positive and negative coefficients is demonstrated. The reconfigurability of the filter is also investigated.     

Negative Tap Photonic Microwave Filter Based on a Mach–Zehnder Modulator and a Tunable Optical Polarizer

A negative tap photonic microwave filter based on a Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) and a tunable optical polarizer is proposed. In the proposed filter, the output light from the MZM, after experiencing a time delay difference between the two orthogonal modes in a polarization-maintaining fiber, is sent to the tunable optical polarizer. By adjusting the dc bias of the MZM and the polarization angle of the tunable polarizer with respect to the two orthogonal modes, two positive or one positive and one negative coefficient are generated. A theoretical analysis is presented which is verified by experiments. A two-tap microwave filter with two positive or one positive and one negative coefficient is demonstrated.     

Microwave photonic notch filter with complex coefficient based on four wave mixing

A microwave photonic notch filter with a complex coefficient is proposed and demonstrated based on four wave mixing (FWM). FWM effect of two single-frequency laser beams occurs in a highly nonlinear fiber (HNLF), and multi-wavelength optical signals are generated and used to generate the multi-tap of microwave photonic filter (MPF). The complex coefficient is generated by using a Fourier-domain optical processor (FD-OP) to control the amplitude and phase of the optical carrier and phase modulation sidebands. The results show that this filter can be changed from bandpass filter to notch filter by controlling the FD-OP. The center frequency of the notch filter can be continuously tuned from 5.853 GHz to 29.311 GHz with free spectral range (FSR) of 11.729 GHz. The shape of the frequency response keeps unchanged when the phase is tuned.     

全新布里渊散射可切换微波光子滤波器

提出了一个新的基于布里渊散射效应的微波光子滤波器。该滤波器可通过调谐系统中光滤波器的中心波长,实现高解析度带通滤波器与陷波滤波器之间的灵活切换,并且通过调谐产生受激布里渊散射的泵浦光的波长可实现滤波器通带或阻带的中心频率在很大频率范围内连续调谐。该滤波器为全光结构,因此具有非常大的调谐范围（调谐上限仅受限于试验中使用的矢量网络分析仪的显示频率上限）。系统中采用相位调制器,因此没有偏置电压漂移问题。实验结果展示了一个带通与陷波滤可灵活切换的高解析度微波光子滤波器,并且通带和阻带的中心频率在9～26.5 GHz范围内连续可调谐,其中带通滤波器的通带具有极窄3 dB带宽,约28 MHz（由光纤本身布里渊增益区线宽所决定）。     

Tunable Photonic Microwave Filter Using a Superstructured FBG With Two Reflection Bands Having Complementary Chirps

A tunable photonic microwave bandpass filter using a superstructured fiber Bragg grating (SFBG) with two reflection bands having complementary chirps is proposed. Being different from a regular chirped FBG, which is usually fabricated using a chirped phase mask with a fixed chirp rate, the SFBG with complementary chirps is fabricated using a uniform phase mask and a chirped sampling function. The chirp rate of the sampling function can be designed to realize specific equivalent chirp rates that are complementary in the 1st-order and the 1st-order reflection bands of the SFBG. An SFBG with complementary chirps is fabricated and characterized. The use of the SFBG to implement a photonic tunable microwave filter with a negative coefficient is experimentally demonstrated.     

Novel Continuously Tunable Microwave Photonic Bandpass Filter

A new technique for tuning the passband frequency of a microwave photonic bandpass filter is presented. It is based on controlling the polarization state of the signal in an amplified recirculating delay line loop with a polarizer at the output. A fixed wavelength laser can be used as an optical source. The filter has a sharp passband, which can be tuned continuously while maintaining the same passband width. Experimental results demonstrate continuous tuning capability of the high-resolution bandpass filter.     

Tunable Photonic Microwave Bandpass Filter With Negative Coefficients Implemented Using an Optical Phase Modulator and Chirped Fiber Bragg Gratings

A continuously tunable photonic microwave bandpass filter with positive and negative coefficients implemented using an optical phase modulator and chirped fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The positive and negative coefficients are generated through optical phase-modulation to intensity-modulation conversion by reflecting the phase-modulated optical carrier from linearly chirped FBGs (LCFBGs) with positive and negative dispersions. The tunability of the filter is realized by changing the wavelength of the optical carrier such that it is reflected at different physical locations in the LCFBGs. A two-tap microwave bandpass filter with a free spectral range tunable from 1.14 to 4.55 GHz is experimentally demonstrated.     

High-Chip-Count UWB Biphase Coding for Multiuser UWB-Over-Fiber System

In this paper, we propose and demonstrate a novel technique to optically generate high-chip-count, phase-coded direct-sequence (DS) ultrawideband (UWB) signals for multiple-access UWB communications. In the proposed system, a lightwave from a laser source is phase-modulated by a Gaussian pulse train. The phase-modulated lightwave is then sent to a polarization modulator, to modulate the polarization state of the lightwave by a code pattern. The polarization-coded optical signal is then converted into a biphase-coded DS-UWB signal by a polarization-dependent frequency discriminator. The key device in the proposed system is the frequency discriminator, which is implemented using a length of polarization maintaining fiber (PMF) and a polarizer. A 127-chip, biphase-coding DS-UWB that has a data rate of 26.46 Mb/s and a chip rate of 3.36 Gb/s is experimentally generated. A multiuser UWB-over-fiber system is then proposed and a two-user system is demonstrated, in which the encoding is performed experimentally and the decoding is performed by numerically calculating the correlation between the coded UWB signal and the signature sequence. The signal of each user is well recognized. An effective two-user UWB-over-fiber system based on the DS-UWB technology is thus demonstrated.      

Tunable microwave photonic filter based on a fiber ring and erbium-doped fiber amplifier

The tunable microwave photonic filter based on a fiber ring and erbium-doped fiber amplifier （EDFA） was proposed. By introducing a section of erbium-doped fiber （EDF） into the fiber ring, the loss of the signal can be compensated by the EDFA gain through adjusting the pump power. This can largely increase the number of the effective sampling taps, and then improve the performance of the microwave photonic filter notably. When the pump power was set to be 42.7 roW, a microwave bandpass filter with the 3-dB bandwidth of 0.15 MHz, the Q factor up to 100 and extinction ratio up to 20 dB was achieved. By employing a tunable optical delay line in the above fiber ring, a tunable microwave photonic filter has been realized through tuning the length of the optical delay line. The proposed tunable microwave photonic filter can fred great applications in microwave signal processing and ROF system.     

Reflective Amplified Recirculating Delay Line Bandpass Filter

A new microwave photonic filter structure that can achieve a high factor, high stopband rejection, and high skirt selectivity bandpass filter response simultaneously is presented. It is based on reflecting the signal back into a single amplified optical recirculating delay line and comprises coherent summation of the multiple signals that constitute each tap and incoherent summation of the successive taps. This introduces a new class of filter operation and effectively enables the realization of a higher order bandpass filter characteristic in a very simple structure. Experimental results are presented that demonstrate a multiple-tap high- bandpass filter response that also displays high stopband rejection level and high skirt selectivity.     

基于氮化硅微环和载波分离的可重构微波光子带通滤波器

基于Add-Drop型氮化硅微环滤波器,利用光学单边带调制和光载波分离的方法,实现可重构微波光子带通滤波器。滤波器带宽和带外抑制比分别达到726 MHz和37.0dB。并且通过改变光载波波长实现1.64~23.41GHz的滤波器频率调谐;通过调节微环耦合系数实现0.683~2.246GHz的滤波器带宽调谐,在带宽调谐范围内带外抑制比大于26dB。     

多种调制格式微波信号的光学产生方案

提出了一种基于偏振调制器（PolM）和Sagnac环级联的多调制格式微波信号的光学产生方案。理论分析了PolM在基带编码信号的驱动下产生偏振键控（PolSK）信号的基本原理,Sagnac环中嵌有两个马赫增德尔调制器（MZM）,分别对顺时针和逆时针传输的PolSK信号进行独立调制。通过合理调整两个MZM的驱动信号,实现了幅移键控（ASK）、频移键控（FSK）和相移键控（PSK）微波信号的产生。在仿真实验中,产生了比特率为2 Gbit/s的40 GHz ASK信号、20/40 GHz FSK信号和20 GHz PSK信号,同时验证了比特率和载波频率的宽带可调谐性。Sagnac环结构提升了系统的稳定性,并且针对每种调制格式的微波信号,在不改变链路结构的情况下其比特率和载波频率都可以通过控制基带编码信号和MZM的射频驱动来进行独立且灵活的调谐。     

基于级联外调制器的六倍频微波信号的光学生成技术研究

提出并实验验证了一种基于级联偏振调制器(Po lM)和双平行马赫-曾德尔调制器(DPMZM)的六 倍频微波信号的光学生成方法。PolM在射频(RF)信号调制下,会产生多个光边带,通过调 节偏振控制 器(PC)和检偏器仅获得奇数阶边带,然后通过DPMZM,其中一子MZM调制RF信号,工作在 最大 传输点(MATP),另一子MZM不调制RF信号,从而抑制掉一阶边带,保留三阶边带,经光 电探测器(PD)拍频获得六倍频微波信号。仿真结果表明,在不利用任何光、电滤波器的情况下,调 制器消光比为 理想状态(100dB)时,RF杂散抑制比(RFSSR) 为34dB。即使消光比为非理想状态(30dB)时,生成微波信号的RF SSR仍可以达到21dB。理论分析和实验结果均验证 了方案的可行性。     

Double Coupler Amplified Recirculating Delay Line Microwave Photonic Bandpass Filter

Theoretical and experimental investigations on a double coupler amplified recirculating delay line (ARDL) microwave photonic bandpass filter are presented. These show that the system involves both coherent and incoherent summation of optical signals. This enables a higher order filter transfer function to be realized, which results in a high-performance frequency response that cannot be achieved by the conventional single coupler ARDL structure. Experimental results are presented that demonstrate a sharp, high skirt selectivity and high stopband rejection level bandpass filter response.     

超宽带信号的产生及光纤传输的研究

提出了一种新的超宽带(UWB)脉冲产生的方法,并对其产生的数学原理进行了分析和实验验证。经过高斯信号调制的偏振控制器(PC)可以产生两个相位互补的相位调制信号,先通过PC调节两个正交的相位调制信号的静态相移,再经过偏振分束器(DBS)检偏后可以得到两路相位互补的高斯信号或二阶高斯信号,最后将这两路信号延时然后再经过偏振合路器(PBC)就可以分别得到一阶或三阶高斯信号。由于这3种脉冲的产生方式不同,频带宽度不同,在光纤中传输时对色散的容忍度也不一样,因此仿真分析了色散对这3种UWB信号传输特性的影响,得出了三阶高斯信号最适合UWB传输。     

基于单个偏振调制器和光交错滤波器的八倍频微波信号产生研究

提出并实验验证了一种采用单个偏振调制器(PolM)的八倍频微波信号光学产生方法。PolM在大信号调制下产生多个高阶光边带,通过调节偏振控制器(PC)和检偏器,仅获得偶数阶光边带;合理调节其调制指数(射频信号功率),使得二阶边带被完全抑制,四阶边带功率明显高于六阶及其它高阶边带。采用光交错滤波器进一步抑制光载波及六阶边带,仅保留四阶边带,经光电探测器(PD)拍频获得八倍频微波信号。仿真方案选用25GHz和50GHz信道间隔的光交错滤波器,充分利用光交错滤波器的周期滤波特性,在4个频段范围内获得了连续可调的八倍频微波信号。实验结果和理论分析有效验证了所提出方案的可行性。     

InGaAs/InGaAsP MQW optical amplifier integrated withgrating-assisted vertical-coupler noise filter

A photonic integrated circuit with an InGaAs/InGaAsP multiple-quantum-well (MQW) traveling-wave optical amplifier and a grating-assisted vertical-coupler filter as a noise filter have been demonstrated. A fiber-to-amplifier/filter gain of ~0.5 dB and a 3-dB filter bandwidth (FWHM) of ~70 Å at 1.56 μm filter center wavelength have been achieved. This photonic circuit is potentially suitable as a building-block for preamplifier lightwave receivers or high-gain, high-power optical amplifiers which are essential for optical communication systems and lightwave networks     

Microwave photonic bandpass filter based on spectrumslicing and phase modulator

A tunable microwave photonic bandpass filter with high mainlobe-to-sidelobe ratio (MSR) based on a phase modulator and a dispersive device is proposed. The multi-tap characteristics of the filter are realized by slicing a broadband source using a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) which results in a high MSR of 25 dB. The tunability of the filter is realized by an optical variable delay line (OVDL) in one arm of the MZI, which changes the wavelength spacing of the sliced broadband source and results in a tunable free spectrum range (FSR) of the filter. The central frequency of the bandpass filter is tunable from 10.7 GHz to 27 GHz by changing the wavelength spacing from 0.145 nm to 0.054 nm.     

A microwave photonic filter based on multi-wavelength fiber laser and infinite impulse response

A microwave photonic filter (MPF) based on multi-wavelength fiber laser and infinite impulse response (IIR) is proposed. The filter uses a multi-wavelength fiber laser as the light source, two sections of polarization maintaining fiber (PMF) and three polarization controllers (PCs) as the laser frequency selection device. By adjusting the PC to change the effective length of the PMF, the laser can obtain three wavelength spacings, which are 0.44 nm, 0.78 nm and 1.08 nm, respectively. And the corresponding free spectral ranges (FSRs) are 8.46 GHz, 4.66 GHz and 3.44 GHz, respectively. Thus changing the wavelength spacing of the laser can make the FSR variable. An IIR filter is introduced based on a finite impulse response (FIR) filter. Then the 3-dB bandwidth of the MPF is reduced, and the main side-lobe suppression ratio (MSSR) is increased. By adjusting the gain of the radio frequency (RF) signal amplifier, the frequency response of the filter can be enhanced.     

Tunable photonic bandpass filter with high-frequency response performance

A continuously tunable RF/microwave photonic bandpass filter that simultaneously achieves high skirt selectivity and high stopband attenuation is presented. It is based on controlling the signal polarisation state in a reflective amplified recirculating delay line loop with a polariser at the output. A technique to overcome the phase noise limitation in the structure is also presented. Experimental results demonstrate continuous tuning of the high-performance photonic bandpass filter and a continuously tunable photonic bandpass filter with a low-noise performance.