A new technique to generate a millimeter(mm)-wave carrier of 32.57 GHz(f_(LO)=10.85 GHz) with single sideband modulation(SSB) for radio-over-fiber(RoF) systems is experimentally demonstrated by using stimula...A new technique to generate a millimeter(mm)-wave carrier of 32.57 GHz(f_(LO)=10.85 GHz) with single sideband modulation(SSB) for radio-over-fiber(RoF) systems is experimentally demonstrated by using stimulated Brillouin scattering(SBS).The SSB is realized by directly amplifying the +3rd sideband of the modulated optical carrier in the process of SBS.The pump wave is provided through a double Brillouin scattering frequency shifting configuration.The use of the same laser source to generate the pump wave ensures the stability of the mm-wave generation system since the relative frequency shift between them can be eliminated.In addition, the mm-wave carrier obtains an RF power gain of 21 dB with the SBS amplification and a 3-dB bandwidth of 10kHz.展开更多
We demonstrate a simple method to obtain accurate optical waveforms with a gigahertz-level programmable modulation bandwidth and a watt-level output power for wideband optical control of free atoms and molecules.Arbit...We demonstrate a simple method to obtain accurate optical waveforms with a gigahertz-level programmable modulation bandwidth and a watt-level output power for wideband optical control of free atoms and molecules.Arbitrary amplitude and phase modulations are transferred from microwave to light with a low-power fiber electro-optical modulator.The sub-milliwatt optical sideband is co-amplified with the optical carrier in a power-balanced fashion through a tapered semiconductor amplifier(TSA).By automatically keeping TSA near saturation in a quasi-continuous manner,typical noise channels associated with pulsed high-gain amplifications are efficiently suppressed.As an example application,we demonstrate interleaved cooling and trapping of two rubidium isotopes with coherent nanosecond pulses.展开更多
An approach to generate high-speed and wideband frequency shift keying(FSK)signals based on carrier phase-shifted double sideband(CPS-DSB)modulation is proposed and experimentally validated.The core part of the scheme...An approach to generate high-speed and wideband frequency shift keying(FSK)signals based on carrier phase-shifted double sideband(CPS-DSB)modulation is proposed and experimentally validated.The core part of the scheme is a pair of cascaded polarization-sensitive LiNbO_(3) Mach–Zehnder modulators and phase modulators,whose polarization directions of the principal axes are mutually orthogonal to each other.A proof-of-concept experiment is carried out,where a 0.5 Gb/s FSK signal with the carrier frequencies of 4 and 8 GHz and a 1 Gb/s FSK signal with the carrier frequencies of 8 and 16 GHz are generated successfully.展开更多
Optical beating is the usual approach to generation of microwave signals.However,the highest frequency achievable for microwave signals is limited by the bandwidths of optoelectronic devices.To maximize the microwave ...Optical beating is the usual approach to generation of microwave signals.However,the highest frequency achievable for microwave signals is limited by the bandwidths of optoelectronic devices.To maximize the microwave frequency with a limited bandwidth of a photodetector(PD)and relieve the bandwidth bottleneck,we propose to generate microwave signals with the single sideband(SSB)format by beating a continuous wave(CW)light with an optical SSB signal.By simply adjusting the frequency diference between the CW light and the carrier of the optical SSB signal,the frequency of the generated microwave SSB signal is changed correspondingly.In the experiment,amplitude shift keying(ASK)microwave signals with the SSB format are successfully generated with diferent carrier frequencies and coding bit rates,and the recovered coding information agrees well with the original pseudo random binary sequence(PRBS)of 2^(7)−1 bits.The proposed approach can signifcantly relieve the bandwidth restriction set by optoelectronic devices in high-speed microwave communication systems.展开更多
基金Project supported by the Meteorology Industry Research Project of China(Nos.GYHY200806033,GYHY201006045)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61021003,61090391,60837001,60820106004)+1 种基金the National Basic Research Program of China (No.2009AA03Z409)the Open Fund of Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications(Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications),Ministry of Education
文摘A new technique to generate a millimeter(mm)-wave carrier of 32.57 GHz(f_(LO)=10.85 GHz) with single sideband modulation(SSB) for radio-over-fiber(RoF) systems is experimentally demonstrated by using stimulated Brillouin scattering(SBS).The SSB is realized by directly amplifying the +3rd sideband of the modulated optical carrier in the process of SBS.The pump wave is provided through a double Brillouin scattering frequency shifting configuration.The use of the same laser source to generate the pump wave ensures the stability of the mm-wave generation system since the relative frequency shift between them can be eliminated.In addition, the mm-wave carrier obtains an RF power gain of 21 dB with the SBS amplification and a 3-dB bandwidth of 10kHz.
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Nos.2016YFA0302000 and 2017YFA0304204)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(No.12074083)the National Key Scientific Instrument and Equipment Development Project(No.12027806)。
文摘We demonstrate a simple method to obtain accurate optical waveforms with a gigahertz-level programmable modulation bandwidth and a watt-level output power for wideband optical control of free atoms and molecules.Arbitrary amplitude and phase modulations are transferred from microwave to light with a low-power fiber electro-optical modulator.The sub-milliwatt optical sideband is co-amplified with the optical carrier in a power-balanced fashion through a tapered semiconductor amplifier(TSA).By automatically keeping TSA near saturation in a quasi-continuous manner,typical noise channels associated with pulsed high-gain amplifications are efficiently suppressed.As an example application,we demonstrate interleaved cooling and trapping of two rubidium isotopes with coherent nanosecond pulses.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.U2006217,61775015,61801017,and 61827818)。
文摘An approach to generate high-speed and wideband frequency shift keying(FSK)signals based on carrier phase-shifted double sideband(CPS-DSB)modulation is proposed and experimentally validated.The core part of the scheme is a pair of cascaded polarization-sensitive LiNbO_(3) Mach–Zehnder modulators and phase modulators,whose polarization directions of the principal axes are mutually orthogonal to each other.A proof-of-concept experiment is carried out,where a 0.5 Gb/s FSK signal with the carrier frequencies of 4 and 8 GHz and a 1 Gb/s FSK signal with the carrier frequencies of 8 and 16 GHz are generated successfully.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.61975249)the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Nos.2018YFB2201700 and 2018YFA0704403)the Program for HUST Academic Frontier Youth Team(No.2018QYTD08).
文摘Optical beating is the usual approach to generation of microwave signals.However,the highest frequency achievable for microwave signals is limited by the bandwidths of optoelectronic devices.To maximize the microwave frequency with a limited bandwidth of a photodetector(PD)and relieve the bandwidth bottleneck,we propose to generate microwave signals with the single sideband(SSB)format by beating a continuous wave(CW)light with an optical SSB signal.By simply adjusting the frequency diference between the CW light and the carrier of the optical SSB signal,the frequency of the generated microwave SSB signal is changed correspondingly.In the experiment,amplitude shift keying(ASK)microwave signals with the SSB format are successfully generated with diferent carrier frequencies and coding bit rates,and the recovered coding information agrees well with the original pseudo random binary sequence(PRBS)of 2^(7)−1 bits.The proposed approach can signifcantly relieve the bandwidth restriction set by optoelectronic devices in high-speed microwave communication systems.