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http://dx.doi.org/10.3807/JOSK.2013.17.6.491

A Frequency-Doubling Optoelectronic Oscillator using a Three-Arm Dual-Output Mach-Zehnder Modulator  

Chong, Yuhua (School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University)
Yang, Chun (School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University)
Li, Xianghua (School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University)
Ye, Quanyi (School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University)
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Journal of the Optical Society of Korea / v.17, no.6, 2013 , pp. 491-493 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper proposes a frequency-doubling optoelectronic oscillator employing a novel three-arm dual-output Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM). One output of the MZM generates the fundamental-frequency signal which is recycled by the microwave optical fiber link for oscillation, and the other output can generate the frequency-doubled signal. Experiment was conducted using a commercial two-arm MZM, a phase modulator, and an optical fiber link of 89 meters in length. A 19-GHz frequency-doubled signal was successively obtained with fundamental signal suppression more than 36 dB.
Keywords
Optoelectronic oscillator; Frequency doubling; Mach-Zehnder modulator; Microwave generation;
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