title: Integrated microwave photonic splitter with reconfigurable amplitude, phase, and delay offsets.
abstract: This work presents an integrated microwave photonics splitter with reconfigurable amplitude, phase, and delay offsets. The core components for this function are a dual-parallel Mach-Zehnder modulator, a deinterleaver, and tunable delay lines, all implemented using photonic integrated circuits. Using a demonstrator with an optical free spectral range of 25 GHz, we show experimentally the RF splitting function over two continuous bands, i.e., 0.9-11.6 GHz and 13.4-20 GHz. This result promises a deployable solution for creating wideband, reconfigurable RF splitters in integrated forms.
authors.forename: Leimeng
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhuang
authors.forename: Maurizio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Burla
authors.forename: Caterina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Taddei
authors.forename: Chris G H
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Roeloffzen
authors.forename: Marcel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hoekman
authors.forename: Arne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Leinse
authors.forename: Klaus-J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Boller
authors.forename: Arthur J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Lowery