Generating tunable microwave signals (1 to 25 GHz) by optical mixing

Alejandro Garcia-Juarez; Celso Gutierrez-Martinez; Jose Alfredo Torres-Fortiz; Jocobo Meza-Perez

doi:10.1117/12.590610

21 October 2004 Generating tunable microwave signals (1- to 25-GHz) by optical mixing

Alejandro Garcia-Juarez, Celso Gutierrez-Martinez, Jose Alfredo Torres-Fortiz, Jocobo Meza-Perez

Proceedings Volume 5622, 5th Iberoamerican Meeting on Optics and 8th Latin American Meeting on Optics, Lasers, and Their Applications; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.590610
Event: 5th Iberoamerican Meeting on Optics and 8th Latin American Meeting on Optics, Lasers, and Their Applications, 2004, Porlamar, Venezuela

Abstract

In this work we report the generation of microwave signals using photo-mixing of two laser beams. In this case, one laser beam is single mode and the other one shows a multimode spectrum. Due to spectral separation between the two lasers, microwave signals can be generated and tuned between 1 and 25 GHz, the bandwidth of the generated signal is approximately 2.5 GHz; however, using narrow-band microwave filters, the photo generated signal can provide microwave information carriers for high-speed telecommunication systems.

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Alejandro Garcia-Juarez, Celso Gutierrez-Martinez, Jose Alfredo Torres-Fortiz, and Jocobo Meza-Perez "Generating tunable microwave signals (1- to 25-GHz) by optical mixing", Proc. SPIE 5622, 5th Iberoamerican Meeting on Optics and 8th Latin American Meeting on Optics, Lasers, and Their Applications, (21 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.590610

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