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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)
  • Received : 2013.10.15
  • Accepted : 2013.11.21
  • Published : 2013.12.25
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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.

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