Photonic Generation of Millimeter-Wave Signals With Tunable Phase Shift
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Abstract
A novel photonic approach to generating a frequency-quadrupled millimeter-wave (mm-wave) signal with a tunable phase shift is proposed and demonstrated. Two second-order optical sidebands are generated by using a Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) that is biased at the maximum transmission point and an optical notch filter. A polarization-maintaining fiber Bragg grating (PM-FBG) is then utilized to make the two sidebands orthogonally polarized, which are then sent to a polarization modulator (PolM). By aligning the two orthogonally polarized sidebands with the two principal axes of the PolM, complementary phase modulation is thus achieved. By beating the two phase-modulated sidebands at a photodetector, an mm-wave signal is generated and its phase is continuously tunable by tuning the bias voltage to the PolM. An experiment is performed. An mm-wave signal with a frequency tunable from 36 to 52 GHz is generated and its phase is tunable over 360 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">°</sup> by tuning the bias voltage.
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