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Optical generation of microwave frequency shift keying signals based on cascaded Mach-Zehnder modulators

XIAOGANG CHEN1,2,*

Affiliation

  1. School of Photoelectronic Engineering, Changzhou Institute of Technology, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China
  2. Nanfang Communications Technology Corporation Limited, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China

Abstract

Based on cascaded Mach-Zehnder Modulators (MZM), a novel scheme for optical generating of microwave frequency shift keying (FSK) signal is designed and demonstrated. In the designed scheme, a microwave FSK signal with frequencies of two and four times the frequency of driving microwave signal for bit ‘0’ and ‘1’ is generated. The feasibility of the designed scheme is verified by a simulation experiment. With 5 GHz driving microwave signal, a 1 Gbit/s microwave FSK signal at 10/20 GHz is generated and transmitted over 30 Km single-mode fiber (SMF).

Keywords

Microwave Photonics, Optical generation of microwave FSK, Radio over Fiber (RoF), Mach-Zehnder modulators.

Citation

XIAOGANG CHEN, Optical generation of microwave frequency shift keying signals based on cascaded Mach-Zehnder modulators, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 18, 1-2, January-February 2024, pp.16-20 (2024).

Submitted at: July 12, 2023

Accepted at: Feb. 9, 2024