A microphotonic transversal RF signal processor with no laser-coherence noise

Authors

Rong Zheng, Edith Cowan University
Kamal Alameh, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Zhenglin Wang, Edith Cowan University

Document Type

Journal Article

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons Ltd

Faculty

Faculty of Computing, Health and Science

School

Electron Science Research Institute (ESRI)

RAS ID

3666

Comments

Zheng, R. , Alameh, K. , & Wang, Z. (2005). A microphotonic transversal RF signal processor with no laser-coherence noise. Microwave & Technology Letters, 45(6), 540-545. Available here

Abstract

In this paper, the impact of laser coherence on transversal photonic RF signal processors is investigated and a new MicroPhotonic adaptive RF filter structure, which eliminates the phased-induced intensity noise, is proposed and demonstrated. It is shown that the phase-induced intensity noise caused by the laser-source coherence significantly degrades the RF frequency response of a transversal photonic RF filter, hence, limiting its performance. The results show that the MicroPhotonic RF filter is capable of generating an arbitrary transfer function with no phase-induced intensity noise

DOI

10.1002/mop.20873