Photonic Generation of Millimeter-Wave Signals With Tunable Phase Shift

Photonic Generation of Millimeter-Wave Signals With Tunable Phase Shift

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A novel photonic approach to generating a frequency-quadrupled millimeter-wave (mm-wave) signal with a tunable phase shift is proposed and demonstrated.Two second-order optical sidebands are generated by using a Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) modbiv that is biased at the maximum transmission point and an optical notch filter.A polarization-maintaining fiber Bragg grating (PM-FBG) is then utilized to make the two sidebands orthogonally polarized, which are then sent to a polarization modulator (PolM).By aligning the two orthogonally polarized sidebands with the two principal axes of the PolM, complementary phase modulation is thus achieved.

By beating the two phase-modulated sidebands at a photodetector, an mm-wave signal is generated and its phase is continuously tunable by tuning the bias nobivac 1-dappv single dose voltage to the PolM.An experiment is performed.An mm-wave signal with a frequency tunable from 36 to 52 GHz is generated and its phase is tunable over 360 ° by tuning the bias voltage.