Frequency-Sweep-Range-Reconfigurable Complementary Linearly Chirped Microwave Waveform Pair Generation by Using a Fourier Domain Mode Locking Optoelectronic Oscillator Based on Stimulated Brillouin Scattering

Lingjie Zhang; Zhen Zeng; Yaowen Zhang; Zhiyao Zhang; Shangjian Zhang; Guangming Ni; Yong Liu

doi:10.1109/JPHOT.2020.2988210

IEEE Photonics Journal (Jan 2020)

Frequency-Sweep-Range-Reconfigurable Complementary Linearly Chirped Microwave Waveform Pair Generation by Using a Fourier Domain Mode Locking Optoelectronic Oscillator Based on Stimulated Brillouin Scattering

Lingjie Zhang,
Zhen Zeng,
Yaowen Zhang,
Zhiyao Zhang,
Shangjian Zhang,
Guangming Ni,
Yong Liu

Affiliations

Lingjie Zhang: ORCiD; School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
Zhen Zeng: School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
Yaowen Zhang: School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
Zhiyao Zhang: ORCiD; School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
Shangjian Zhang: ORCiD; School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
Guangming Ni: ORCiD; School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
Yong Liu: School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOT.2020.2988210
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 3
pp. 1 – 10

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A Fourier domain mode locking (FDML) optoelectronic oscillator (OEO) based on stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) is proposed to generate complementary linearly chirped microwave waveform (LCMW) pairs with flexibly-reconfigurable frequency sweep range and excellent frequency sweep linearity. The FDML OEO involves an SBS-based dual-passband microwave photonic filter with its two passbands linearly and fast scanning in the opposite direction at an identical frequency sweep rate, which is realized by using a single laser source to obtain a fast frequency sweep probe light and a two-tone pump light through electro-optic modulation. A proof-of-concept experiment is carried out to demonstrate the proposed scheme. In the experiment, frequency-sweep-range-reconfigurable complementary LCMW pairs with period of 20.5 μs are generated in the range of 5 GHz to 18 GHz, where the maximum time-bandwidth product and chirp rate are 82000 and ±0.195 GHz/μs, respectively. Most importantly, the frequency sweep linearity is measured to be 1.76%, which is much better than the results obtained in the existing FDML OEOs.

Published in IEEE Photonics Journal

ISSN: 1943-0655 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General): Applied optics. Photonics; Science: Physics: Optics. Light
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