1. Two-wave mixing in an erbium-doped fiber amplifier for modulation depth enhancement of optically carried microwave signals
- Author
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S. Norcia-Molin, Robert Frey, Daniel Dolfi, J.-P. Huignard, S. Tonda-Goldstein, Thales Research and Technologies [Orsay] (TRT), THALES, Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Manolia, Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique (LCFIO), and Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut d'Optique Graduate School (IOGS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut d'Optique Graduate School (IOGS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Subjects
010302 applied physics ,Optical amplifier ,[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-OPTICS]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Optics [physics.optics] ,Materials science ,Optical fiber ,business.industry ,Attenuation ,Physics::Optics ,01 natural sciences ,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics ,law.invention ,010309 optics ,Amplitude modulation ,Optics ,Optical modulator ,Optical Carrier transmission rates ,Modulation ,law ,0103 physical sciences ,business ,Microwave - Abstract
International audience; We experimentally and theoretically analyze an original method based on two-wave mixing in an erbiumdoped fiber amplifier for optical carrier reduction of microwave signals. 75% optical carrier attenuation has been observed, and a 10 dB modulation depth increase of the microwave signal is experimentally demonstrated. Moreover, calculated results are in good agreement with measurements and predict that up to 80% carrier attenuation is easily possible.
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- 2006