A novel microwave photonic link employing cascaded ring resonators as balanced optical discriminators

Marpaung, D.A.I. and Roeloffzen, C.G.H. and Leinse, A. and Hoekman, M. (2010) A novel microwave photonic link employing cascaded ring resonators as balanced optical discriminators. In: Annual Symposium of the IEEE Photonics Benelux Chapter 2010, 18-19 November 2010, Delft, The Netherlands.

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Abstract:	We report the design, fabrication and characterization of a balanced optical discriminator for a high performance phase modulation-direct detection microwave photonic link (MPL). The discriminator is an integrated optical filter consisting of five ring resonators which are fully tunable using thermo-optical tuning. The discriminator is configured to yield a desired transfer where the intensity transmission ramps linearly with the frequency. The performance of an MPL employing this discriminator is investigated. Measurement results on the MPL noise, linearity and spurious-free dynamic range are presented and discussed.
Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item
Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
Research Group:	Telecommunication Engineering (TE)
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