Wang, Chao, Yao, Jianping (2008) Photonic Generation of Chirped Millimeter-Wave Pulses Based on Nonlinear Frequency-to-Time Mapping in a Nonlinearly Chirped Fiber Bragg Grating. IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 56 (2). pp. 542-553. ISSN 0018-9480. (doi:10.1109/TMTT.2007.914639) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:35697)
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TMTT.2007.914639 |
Abstract
A novel approach to optically generating chirped millimeter-wave pulses with tunable chirp rate based on spectral shaping and nonlinear frequency-to-time mapping is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. In the proposed approach, the optical power spectrum of an ultrashort pulse from a femtosecond pulsed laser is shaped by a two-tap Sagnac loop filter that has a sinusoidal frequency response. The spectrum-shaped optical pulse is then sent to a nonlinearly chirped fiber Bragg grating (NL-CFBG) with a tunable nonlinear group delay to serve as a high-order dispersive device to perform the nonlinear frequency-to-time mapping. A chirped electrical pulse with a high central frequency and large chirp rate is then generated at the output of a high-speed photodetector. The NL-CFBG used in the proposed system is produced from a regular linearly chirped fiber Bragg grating based on strain-gradient beam tuning. A detailed theoretical analysis on the chirped pulse generation is developed, which is verified by numerical simulations and experiments. Millimeter-wave pulses with a central frequency of around 35 GHz and instantaneous frequency chirp rates of 0.053 and 0.074 GHz/ps are experimentally generated.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1109/TMTT.2007.914639 |
Uncontrolled keywords: | Chirped pulse generation; Chromatic dispersion; Frequency-to-time mapping; Microwave photonics; Nonlinearly chirped fiber Bragg grating (NL-CFBG); Pulse compression; Radar |
Subjects: | T Technology |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Engineering and Digital Arts |
Depositing User: | Tina Thompson |
Date Deposited: | 28 Oct 2013 11:50 UTC |
Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2021 10:12 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/35697 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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