title: Photonic-assisted microwave signal multiplication and modulation using a silicon Mach-Zehnder modulator.
abstract: Photonic generation of microwave signal is obviously attractive for many prominent advantages, such as large bandwidth, low loss, and immunity to electromagnetic interference. Based on a single integrated silicon Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM), we propose and experimentally demonstrate a simple and compact photonic scheme to enable frequency-multiplicated microwave signal. Using the fabricated integrated MZM, we also demonstrate the feasibility of microwave amplitude-shift keying (ASK) modulation based on integrated photonic approach. In proof-of-concept experiments, 2-GHz frequency-doubled microwave signal is generated using a 1-GHz driving signal. 750-MHz/1-GHz frequency-tripled/quadrupled microwave signals are obtained with a driving signal of 250 MHz. In addition, a 50-Mb/s binary amplitude coded 1-GHz microwave signal is also successfully generated.
authors.affiliation: Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, China.
authors.forename: Yun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Long
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Linjie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, China.
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
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