一种基于光载波布里渊处理的三角波脉冲发生器.docVIP

  A Photonic-Assisted Triangular-Shaped Pulses Generator Based on Optical Carrier Brillouin Processing# 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 LIU Xinkai, PAN Wei, ZOU Xihua, YAN Lianshan, LUO Bin** (School of Information Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031) Abstract: A photonic approach for generation of triangular-shaped pulses based on optical carrier Brillouin processing is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. In the proposed approach, A Mach–Zehnder modulator (MZM) biased at the minimum-transmission-point (MITP) is used to generate an optical modulated signal with only the odd-order sidebands. And then the amplification gain provided by stimulated Brillouin scatter (SBS) is adopted to recover the suppressed carrier. Meanwhile, the negative-order sidebands of the optical modulated signal are removed by an optical bandpass filter (OBPF). By appropriately setting the modulation index, the amplitude of the 1st-order harmonic can equal to 9 times of that of the 3rd-order harmonic. In this way, triangular-shaped pulses can be obtained. In the experiment, a triangular-shaped pulse with a tunable repetition rate of 8 GHz is generated. Key words: Microwave photonics; Stimulated Brillouin scatter (SBS); triangular-shaped pulse. 0 Introduction Photonics generation of microwave arbitrary waveform has been widely used in the fields of modern radar or antennas, radio frequency (RF) communication systems and electronic equipment test measurements, attributed to the advantages of high bandwidth, high quality waveform and immunity to electromagnetic interference [1]-[4]. Triangular waveform, one of microwave arbitrary waveforms, has been generated by many optical approaches. The basic principle of these approaches is based on Fourier series representation of periodic signals. The triangular wave contains only odd harmonics, and the higher harmonics have a fast roll-off factor. Therefore, the triangular waveform can be approximately represented with f