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A photonics-based multi-band linearly frequency-modulated (LFM) waveform generator with reconfigurable center frequency, bandwidth and time duration is proposed and demonstrated. By introducing two coherent optical frequency combs (OFCs) with a frequency shift and different free spectral ranges (FSRs) as multi-frequency optical LOs, a set of LFM signals with different center frequencies will be generated if one of the combs is modulated by an intermediate-frequency (IF) LFM signal. The center frequencies of the generated RF-LFM signals can be flexibly tuned by adjusting the frequency shift between the two OFCs. In addition, by introducing a series of proper time delays to the LFM signals and combining them, a frequency-stepped LFM signal can be generated. Furthermore, when the bandwidth of the IF-LFM signal equals the difference of the comb FSRs, and the time duration of IF-LFM signal equals the time delay of the consecutive channels, a LFM signal with both bandwidth and time duration multiplied can be obtained. With N comb lines, the maximum achievable time-bandwidth product (TBWP) is N × N times of the applied IF LFM signal. A proof-of-concept experiment is carried out. A set of LFM signals with frequencies ranging from L to Ka bands are generated. By introducing proper time delays, a frequency-stepped LFM signal with frequency steps between 10 GHz and 20 GHz is also produced. In addition, LFM signals with the bandwidth and time duration multiplied by 2 and 5 are realized (4-GHz bandwidth, 2-μs time duration and 10-GHz bandwidth, 5-μs time duration), respectively. Correspondingly, the TBWPs are increased by 4 and 25 times.

Photonics-based reconfigurable multi-band linearly frequency-modulated signal generation