A multi-octave microwave downconverter based on a dual-drive Mach-Zehnder modulator
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- 1 January 2016
- conference paper
- Published by Optica Publishing Group
- p. Th2A.13
Abstract
A microwave downconverter based on optical single-sideband modulation by a dual-drive Mach-Zehnder modulator and carrier suppression by a fiber Bragg grating is proposed and demonstrated, which implements multi-octave downconversion with suppressed mixing spurs.Keywords
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