Optically controlled low-distortion delay of GHz-wide radio-frequency signals using slow light in fibers

Avi Zadok; Oded Raz; Avishay Eyal; Moshe Tur

doi:10.1109/LPT.2007.891980

Optically controlled low-distortion delay of GHz-wide radio-frequency signals using slow light in fibers

Avi Zadok, Oded Raz, Avishay Eyal, Moshe Tur

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Abstract

Continuously tunable delay of broadband analog signals for microwave photonics applications is described and demonstrated, based on stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in optical fibers. The optical spectrum of the pump laser is synthesized using chirp control, in order to obtain a broadened SBS "slow light" process, with long delay and low amplitude and phase distortions. The resulting SBS process is applied to delay 1-GHz-wide linear frequency modulated radio-frequency signals of arbitrary carrier frequency. Delays up to 230 ps are observed, with a worst-case sidelobe suppression ratio of -26 dB.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	462-464
Number of pages	3
Journal	IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume	19
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2007.891980
State	Published - 1 Apr 2007
Externally published	Yes

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Funding Information:
Manuscript received November 27, 2006; revised January 8, 2007. This work was supported in part by the Israel Science Foundation. The work of A. Zadok was supported by the Israel Clore Foundation under a Ph.D. study scholarship. A. Zadok, A. Eyal, and M. Tur are with the Faculty of Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel (e-mail: [email protected]). O. Raz was with the Faculty of Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. He is now with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Eindhoven, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Color versions of one or more of the figures in this letter are available online at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/LPT.2007.891980

Keywords

Microwave photonics
Optical antenna beam-forming
Optical signal processing
Slow light
Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS)

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