A single source microwave photonic filter using a novel single-mode fiber to multimode fiber coupling technique

John Chang, Mable P. Fok, James Meister, Paul R. Prucnal

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Abstract

In this paper we present a fully tunable and reconfigurable single-laser multi-tap microwave photonic FIR filter that utilizes a special SM-to-MM combiner to sum the taps. The filter requires only a single laser source for all the taps and a passive component, a SM-to-MM combiner, for incoherent summing of signal. The SM-to-MM combiner does not produce optical interference during signal merging and is phase-insensitive. We experimentally demonstrate an eight-tap filter with both positive and negative programmable coefficients with excellent correspondence between predicted and measured values. The magnitude response shows a clean and accurate function across the entire bandwidth, and proves successful operation of the FIR filter using a SM-to-MM combiner.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)5585-5593
Number of pages9
JournalOptics Express
Volume21
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 11 2013

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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