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Photonic microwave phase shifter/modulator based on a nonlinear optical loop mirror incorporating a Mach-Zehnder
1State Key Lab of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. yidong@sjtu.edu.cn
Optics Letters
|March 7, 2007
Abstract:
We realize a novel photonic microwave phase shifter/modulator based on a nonlinear optical loop mirror incorporating a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. A near-linear phase shifter exceeding 180 degrees and a phase modulation with 2.5 Gbit/s baseband signal are obtained for a 10 GHz microwave signal by this proposed device.

