Optical frequency comb generation based on chirping of Mach-Zehnder modulators

• Main Authors: Hmood, J.K., Emami, S.D., Noordin, K.A., Ahmad, Harith, Harun, Sulaiman Wadi, Shalaby, H.M.H.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Optics Communications 2015
• Subjects: T Technology (General); TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/13762/1/Optical_frequency_comb_generation_based_on_chirping_of_Mach.pdf; http://eprints.um.edu.my/13762/; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003040181500067X
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

A new approach for the generation of an optical frequency comb, based on chirping of modulators, is proposed and numerically demonstrated. The setup includes two cascaded Mach-Zehnder Modulators (MZMs), a sinusoidal wave oscillator, and an electrical time delay. The first MZM is driven directly by a...