A photonic up-converter for a WDM radio-over-fiber system using cross-absorption modulation in an EAM
- 22 August 2005
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
- Vol. 17 (9), 1950-1952
- https://doi.org/10.1109/lpt.2005.853015
Abstract
A photonic frequency up-converter with a wide wavelength bandwidth is demonstrated. The up-converter is based on wavelength conversion by cross-absorption modulation in an electroabsorption modulator. A two-tone measurement is performed to investigate the linearity of the proposed up-converter. Moreover, its dependence on the wavelength and bias voltage are found to be suitable for wavelength-division-multiplexing-based radio-over-fiber application. The proposed up-converter has a spurious free dynamic range larger than 73.8 dB/spl middot/Hz /sup 2/3/ throughout the 30-nm range of the local oscillator wavelength. Also, the up-converted signal at 26 GHz has a phase noise of -76.8 dBc/Hz at a 10-kHz offset.Keywords
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