Generation of complex microwave and millimeter-wave pulses using dispersion and Kerr effect in optical fiber systems

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1179-1187

  Levinson, Oren ^a   Horowitz, Moshe ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Interference; Millimeter wave devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber devices; Optical propagation

Indexed keywords

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MICROWAVES; OPTICAL FIBERS;

MILLIMETER-WAVE PULSES;

OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES;

EID: 0042594574     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2003.811425     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. X. S. Yao and L. Maleki, "Optoelectronic microwave oscillator," J. Opt. Soc. Amer. B, vol. 13, pp. 1725-1735, 1996.
2. C. H. Lee, "Optical generation and control of microwave and millimeter waves." in 1987 IEEE MTT-S Int. Microwave Symp. Dig., vol. II, June 1987, pp. 811-814.
3. A. Bilenca, J. Lasri, G. Eisenstein, D. Ritter, V. Sidorov, S. Cohen, P. Goldgeier, and M. Orenstein. "Optoelectronic generation and modulation of millimeter wave in a single InP-GalnAs photo heterojunction bipolar transistor," IEEE Photon. Technol Lett.,vol. 12, pp. 1240-1242, 2000.
4. S. Fukushima, C. F. Csilva, Y. Muramoto, and A. J. Seeds, "10 to 110 Ghz tunable opto-electronic frequency synthesis using optical frequency comb generator and uni-traveling-carrier photodiode," Electron. Lett., vol. 37, pp. 780-781, 2001.
5. D. E. N. Davis, G. Economou, and K. Arora, "Generation of RF and microwave signals from low-frequency squared-wave modulation of laser diode," Opt. Quantum Electron. Lett., vol. 18, pp. 93-96, 1986.
6. M. I. Skolnik, Introduction to Radar System, 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980.
7. J. P. Proakis, Digital Communications, 4th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001.
8. M. Horowitz and Y. Silberberg, "Nonlinear filtering by use of intensity-dependent polarization rotation in birefringent fibers," Opt. Lett., vol. 22, pp. 1760-1762, 1997.
9. R. Stolen, J. Botineau, and A. Ashkin, "Intensity discrimination of optical pulses with birefringent fibers," Opt. Lett., vol. 7, pp. 512-514, 1982.
10. B. Nikolaus, D. Grischkowsky, and A. C. Balant, "Optical pulse reshaping based on the nonlinear birefringence of single-mode optical fibers," Opt. Lett., vol. 8, pp. 189-191, 1983.
11. G. P. Agrawal, Nonlinear Fiber Optics, 2nd ed. San Diego. CA: Academic, 1995.
12. H. Ito, T. Furuta, S. Komada, and T. Ishibashi, "InP/InGaAs uni-travelling-carrier photodiode with 220 Ghz bandwidth," Electron. Lett., vol. 35, pp. 1556-1557, 1999.
13. J. E. Rothenberg, "Modulation instability for normal dispersion," Phys. Rev. A, vol. 42, pp. 682-685, 1990.
14. E. Seve, P. T. Dinda, G. Millot, M. Remoissenet, J. M. Bilbault, and M. Haelterman, "Modulational instability and critical regime in a highly birefringent fiber," Phys. Rev. A, vol. 54, pp. 3519-3534, 1996.
15. K. T. Hasegawa and A. Tomita, "Observation of modulation instability in optical fibers," Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 57, pp. 135-139, 1986.
16. C. R. Menyuk, "Nonlinear pulse propagation in birefringent optical fibers," J. Quantum Electron., vol. QE-23, pp. 174-176, 1987.
17. R. A. Fisher and P. L. Kelly, "Subpicosecond pulse generation using the optical Kerr effect," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 14, pp. 140-143, 1969.
18. C. V. Shank, R. L. Fork, R. Yen, W. J. Tomlinson, and R. H. Stolen, "Compression of femtosecond optical pulses," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 40, pp. 761-763, 1982.
19. L. F. Mollenauer, R. Stolen, W. J. Tomlinson, and J. P. Gordon, "Extreme picosecond pulse narrowing by means of soliton effect in single-mode optical fibers," Opt. Lett., vol. 8, pp. 289-291, 1983.
20. C. R. Menyuk, "Stability of solitons in birefringent optical fibers. I: Equal propagation amplitudes," Opt. Lett., vol. 12, pp. 614-616, 1987.
21. M. N. Islam, C. D. Pool, and J. P. Gordon, "Soliton trapping in birefringent optical fibers," Opt. Lett., vol. 14, pp. 1011-1013, 1989.
22. Y. S. Kivshar, "Soliton stability in birefringent optical fibers: Analytical approach," J. Opt. Soc. Amer. B, vol. 7, pp. 2204-2209, 1990.
23. J. Chou, Y. Han, and B. Jalali, "Adaptive RF-photonic arbitrary waveform generator," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 15, pp. 581-583, Apr. 2003.