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27 December 2001 Photonic millimeter-wave generation using a double passband fiber Bragg grating filter
James H. Menders, Cornelius Diamond, Edward Miles
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Abstract
We report a simplified version of a mm-wave generator employing the sideband filtering technique which uses a single optical sideband filter. Instead of using a Mach- Zehnder-like fiber network to select a pair of sidebands, we employ a single Fabry-Perot fiber Bragg grating with a pair of passbands separated by the mm-wave frequency. Using a single filter, eliminated the need for polarization control and pathlength matching that was required by the former interferometer-like arrangement. We describe a 30 GHz generator design and present its mm-wave signal spectrum showing an instrument limited linewidth of approximately 20 Hz. The generation of such an extremely narrow signal spectrum from a laser with a 1 MHz linewidth demonstrates the remarkable laser frequency nosie cancellation property of the sideband filtering technique.
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James H. Menders, Cornelius Diamond, and Edward Miles "Photonic millimeter-wave generation using a double passband fiber Bragg grating filter", Proc. SPIE 4490, Multifrequency Electronic/Photonic Devices and Systems for Dual-Use Applications, (27 December 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.455443
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KEYWORDS
Optical filters

Fiber Bragg gratings

Phased array optics

Modulation

Fabry–Perot interferometers

Interference (communication)

Phase modulation

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