Generation of Versatile Waveforms From CW Light Using a Dual-Drive Mach-Zehnder Modulator and Employing Chromatic Dispersion

Dai, Bo; Gao, Zhensen; Wang, Xu; Chen, Hongwei; Kataoka, Naoki; Wada, Naoya

doi:10.1109/jlt.2012.2225827

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“…Due to its potential application in all-optical signal processing systems [1][2][3], triangular waveform generation based on photonic technologies has been widely studied recently. Various approaches have been proposed [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]. One typical method is implemented based on frequency-to-time mapping (FTTM) [4,5], where the optical spectrum is shaped to have a triangular envelope, and then converted to a temporal triangular waveform.…”

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“…One typical method is implemented based on frequency-to-time mapping (FTTM) [4,5], where the optical spectrum is shaped to have a triangular envelope, and then converted to a temporal triangular waveform. Line-by-line manipulation of the optical spectral comb [6] or self-convolution of a rectangular-shaped pulse [7] were also reported to generate the triangular waveform. These schemes, however, can only generate a triangular pulse with a small duty cycle (<1) [4][5][6][7].…”

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“…Line-by-line manipulation of the optical spectral comb [6] or self-convolution of a rectangular-shaped pulse [7] were also reported to generate the triangular waveform. These schemes, however, can only generate a triangular pulse with a small duty cycle (<1) [4][5][6][7]. In order to produce triangular pulses with a large or even full duty cycle, external modulation of a continuous wave (CW) optical carrier was proposed [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17].…”

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Full-duty triangular pulse generation based on a polarization-multiplexing dual-drive Mach-Zehnder modulator

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A simple and flexible photonic approach to generating a triangular microwave waveform using a single integrated polarization-multiplexing dual-drive Mach-Zehnder modulator (PM-DMZM) and a polarizer is proposed and demonstrated, which needs no specific large modulation indices or an optical filter. In the proposed method, one sub-Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) in the PM-DMZM is driven by a fundamental frequency, which generates an optical signal composed of an optical carrier and a + 1st-order sideband along one polarization direction; and the other sub-MZM is driven by a frequency tripled signal, generating an optical carrier and a -1st-order sideband along the orthogonal polarization direction. By adjusting the polarization direction of the polarizer following the PM-DMZM, which changes the power ratio of the two sidebands, optical intensity with expression corresponding to the Fourier expansion of a triangular-shaped waveform is obtained. Different from the previously reported approaches, neither specific large modulation index nor optical filtering is required, which guarantees a large operational frequency range and improved robustness. A proof-of-concept experiment is carried out. 5-GHz triangular-shaped waveform signals are successfully generated with different modulation indices.

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Full-duty triangular pulse generation based on a polarization-multiplexing dual-drive Mach-Zehnder modulator

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“…By managing their phases and amplitudes, the desired waveforms can be attained. For example, triangular waveform generation has been demonstrated by utilizing a dualparallel Mach-Zehnder modulator (DP-MZM) in conjunction with dispersion elements, filters, or other phase shift devices [8]- [10]. However, the DP-MZM is a high cost device and three dc biases should be very carefully controlled to generate the required sidebands.…”

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Photonic Generation of Triangular Waveform Utilizing Time-Domain Synthesis

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Bai

et al. 2015

IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.

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We propose and demonstrate a new photonic approach for triangular waveform generation. Based on an optical signal with sinusoidal envelope, an injection-locking process in a distributed-feedback semiconductor laser diode is employed to carry out the desired harmonic signal generation, and then the tailored signal is synthesized by the superimposition of these signals with proper power ratio and time delay. In this method, the conventional spectral line manipulating is transferred to individual signal envelope control, which reduces the technical requirement while the flexibility and accuracy is improved. In the experiment demonstration, triangular waveforms with the repetition frequencies of 9, 10, and 12 GHz are successfully generated. The results well agree with the theoretical predication and show great potential to realize arbitrary waveform generation.

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“…Due to the good stability, high coherence and low cost, a versatile waveform generator based on DD-MZM was proposed and demonstrated [16,17]. By controlling two RF signals and two DC bias voltages, FCC-compliment UWB doublet pulse for indoor applications, short pulse, triangular, sawtooth, trapezoidal waveforms were produced.…”

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Photonic millimeter-wave-band ultra-wideband signal generation based on a dual-drive Mach-Zehnder modulator

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Dai

Ren

et al. 2014

9th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China

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A novel millimeter-wave (MMW) band ultra-wideband (UWB) signal generation scheme is proposed in this paper. A theoretical model is built to demonstrate the signal generation and to analyze the signal quality. The mechanism to suppress the residual local oscillation and low frequency components is investigated. The influence of the input signal over the bandwidth is studied. A 24 GHz-band MMW-UWB signal with the bandwidth of 8.1 GHz is generated at 25.5 GHz.

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Generation of Versatile Waveforms From CW Light Using a Dual-Drive Mach-Zehnder Modulator and Employing Chromatic Dispersion

Cited by 58 publications

References 22 publications

Full-duty triangular pulse generation based on a polarization-multiplexing dual-drive Mach-Zehnder modulator

Full-duty triangular pulse generation based on a polarization-multiplexing dual-drive Mach-Zehnder modulator

Photonic Generation of Triangular Waveform Utilizing Time-Domain Synthesis

Photonic millimeter-wave-band ultra-wideband signal generation based on a dual-drive Mach-Zehnder modulator

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