Tunable all-optical negative multitap microwave filters based on uniform fiber Bragg gratings

All-positive-coefficient microwave photonic filter with rectangular response

In conventional approaches to realizing microwave photonic filters (MPFs) with rectangular response, both positive and negative coefficients should be included in the systems, which is a difficulty in incoherent MPFs. Electrical or optical ways to realize the MPFs with bipolar taps, such as those using balanced detectors or based on two opposite modulation slopes of dual-input Mach-Zehnder modulators, usually involve more components compared with the MPFs with unipolar taps. In this Letter, a design of MPFs with rectangular response using all positive coefficients is proposed. There is only one optical link as well as one photodetector utilized in the approach, which largely simplifies the filter structure. Experimental demonstrations of 55-positive-tap MPFs with different passbands are presented to verify the feasibility and potential of the approach.

Fiber Bragg gratings for microwave photonics subsystems

Microwave photonics (MWP) is an emerging filed in which photonic technologies are employed to enable and enhance functionalities in microwave systems which are usually very challenging to fulfill directly in the microwave domain. Various photonic devices have been used to achieve the functions. A fiber Bragg grating (FBG) is one of the key components in microwave photonics systems due to its unique features such as flexible spectral characteristics, low loss, light weight, compact footprint, and inherent compatibility with other fiber-optic devices. In this paper, we discuss the recent development in employing FBGs for various microwave photonics subsystems, with an emphasis on subsystems for microwave photonic signal processing and microwave arbitrary waveform generation. The limitations and potential solutions are also discussed.

Tunable and reconfigurable photonic microwave filter based on stimulated Brillouin scattering

A high Q-factor photonic microwave filter showing tuning and reshaping capabilities and based on stimulated Brillouin scattering is demonstrated. The filter bandpass can be continuously tuned, changing the microwave oscillator used to generate the pump power, and the filter shape can be modified by modulating the microwave tone. A single bandpass over the microwave spectrum can be obtained by using single-sideband suppressed carrier modulation. Experimental results demonstrate the wide tuning range of the filter, its reshaping capability, and Q factor of 670.

All-optical microwave bandpass filter with negative coefficients based on a phase modulator and linearly chirped fiber Bragg gratings

A novel all-optical microwave bandpass filter with negative coefficients is presented. Positive and negative coefficients are obtained through conversion from phase modulation to intensity modulation by passing the phase-modulated optical carriers through chirped fiber Bragg gratings having group-delay responses with positive and negative slopes. A two-tap transversal microwave filter with one negative coefficient is experimentally implemented.

Tunable and reconfigurable microwave filter by use of a Bragg-grating-based acousto-optic superlattice modulator

We present an all-optical novel configuration for implementing multitap transversal filters by use of a broadband source sliced by fiber Bragg grating arrays generated by propagating an acoustic wave along a strong uniform fiber Bragg grating. The tunability and reconfigurability of the microwave filter are demonstrated.