کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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1533734 | 1512569 | 2015 | 6 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
• A design approach for suppression of unwanted harmonics in parallel phase modulators is proposed.2πN phase shift.
• Circuit architecture comprises N-parallel phase modulators driven with progressive phase shifts.
• Analysis for frequency translation and multiplication is demonstrated by numerical simulations.
A generalized array of N parallel phase modulators electrically driven with a progressive 2π/N2π/N phase shift is analyzed. For N-even, the equivalence of this configuration to parallel Mach–Zehnder architectures, and specifically the equivalence for N=4 to a dual parallel Mach–Zehnder modulator is shown. A simple approach to the design of this architecture that determines the static optical phase shifts required in each of the N parallel arms to suppress unwanted harmonics while maximizing the harmonics of interest is developed. The proposed design approach is validated by numerical simulations of N=4 and N=6 architectures with properly determined optical phase shifts. Optical single-side-band modulation (lower and upper) and frequency multiplication of an electrical drive signal with high suppression of unwanted harmonics is shown to be achievable.
Journal: Optics Communications - Volume 354, 1 November 2015, Pages 122–127