Adaptive high-Q bandpass photonic RF filter
Author(s) -
Jessica Zheng,
Kamal Alameh,
Zhenglin Wang
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
proceedings of spie, the international society for optical engineering/proceedings of spie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.192
H-Index - 176
eISSN - 1996-756X
pISSN - 0277-786X
DOI - 10.1117/12.572599
Subject(s) - band pass filter , filter (signal processing) , optical filter , radio frequency , photonics , wideband , materials science , optoelectronics , electronic engineering , optics , computer science , physics , engineering , telecommunications , computer vision
In this paper, a MicroPhotonic-based high-Q tunable RF filter architecture is proposed. The architecture uses a Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) array, a 2D ultra-wideband photo-receiver array and a multi-cavity optical substrate to generate a large number of optical true-time delays thus achieving arbitrary, high-resolution RF filter transfer characteristics. By tuning the responses of the different optical cavities, adaptive high-Q RF filter characteristics can be realized over a wide RF frequency range. Proof-of-concept experimental results demonstrate the adaptability of the MicroPhotonic-based RF filter
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