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Characterizations of a supercontinuum optical source for radio‐over‐fiber system
Author(s) -
Wang Jianping,
Liu Bosheng,
Wang Dan
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
microwave and optical technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1098-2760
pISSN - 0895-2477
DOI - 10.1002/mop.23430
Subject(s) - supercontinuum , microwave , radio over fiber , chirp , optics , fiber , materials science , power (physics) , optical fiber , optoelectronics , physics , telecommunications , photonic crystal fiber , computer science , laser , quantum mechanics , composite material
The generation and characterizations of supercontinuum (SC) optical source in wavelength‐division‐multiplexing radio‐over‐fiber (ROF) system is studied in this article. Factors such as the chirp and peak power of the pump pulse, the length of the SC fiber that affect the light source frequency stability are analyzed. The simulation results demonstrate that by altering the value of initial chirp, peak power and SC fiber length, the random fluctuation of the phase and intensity of the SC spectrum is different. At last by optimizing the initial value, an optimal optical source with high frequency stability as the optical source of ROF system is obtained by experiments. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 50: 1561–1565, 2008; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.23430