Low-phase noise photonic millimeter wave generation using a nonlinear MZM and four-wave mixing in ultra long SOAs

Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1148-1151

  Garcia, André ^a   Rymanov, Vitaly ^a   Stöhr, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; EXTERNAL MODULATION; FREQUENCY REFERENCE; INTERACTION LENGTH; LO FREQUENCY; LO SOURCES; LOCAL OSCILLATOR SOURCES; LOW PHASE NOISE; MACH ZEHNDER MODULATOR; MILLIMETER-WAVE (MM-WAVE); MM-WAVE; MULTIPLICATION FACTOR; NONLINEAR BEHAVIOR; OPTICAL DOMAINS; OPTIMAL OPERATION CONDITIONS; OUTPUT POWER LEVELS; PHASE NOISE MEASUREMENT; PHASE-NOISE LEVELS; PHOTONIC MICROWAVE; PHOTONIC MILLIMETER WAVE; RADIO FREQUENCIES;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EXCITONS; LIGHT MODULATORS; MICROWAVE GENERATION; MILLIMETER WAVES; PHASE NOISE; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

EID: 84868558085     PISSN: 15599450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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