Photonic time stretching of 102-GHz millimeter waves using 1.55-um polymer electro-optic modulator

Harold R. Fetterman; Daniel H. Chang; Hernan Erlig; Min-Cheol Oh; Cheng H. Zhang; William H. Steier; Larry Raymond Dalton

doi:10.1117/12.408567

29 November 2000 Photonic time stretching of 102-GHz millimeter waves using 1.55-μm polymer electro-optic modulator

Harold R. Fetterman, Daniel H. Chang, Hernan Erlig, Min-Cheol Oh, Cheng H. Zhang, William H. Steier, Larry Raymond Dalton

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Proceedings Volume 4114, Photonic Devices and Algorithms for Computing II; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.408567
Event: International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, 2000, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Photonic time-stretch has been proposed as a signal preprocessor to perform A/D conversion in otherwise inaccessible high frequency regimes. We have demonstrated time-stretching of MM-wave signals at frequencies up to 102 GHz down to 11 GHz , using an electrooptic modulator fabricated with the new polymer material PC-CLD. This application takes advantage of the inherent wideband capabilities of the PC-CLD material system, which has also demonstrated good optical insertion loss and high non- linearity at 1.55 micrometers . The dispersion penalty inherent to time-stretching imposes an additional bandwidth limit to that imposed by the modulator. A single-sideband modulator configuration is proposed to reduced the effect of this penalty.

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Harold R. Fetterman, Daniel H. Chang, Hernan Erlig, Min-Cheol Oh, Cheng H. Zhang, William H. Steier, and Larry Raymond Dalton "Photonic time stretching of 102-GHz millimeter waves using 1.55-μm polymer electro-optic modulator", Proc. SPIE 4114, Photonic Devices and Algorithms for Computing II, (29 November 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.408567

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