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Electro-optic up-conversion mixer amenable to photonic integration

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A novel electro-optical up-conversion mixer architecture comprising four electro-optical phase modulators situated in the arms between an interconnected 1 × 4 distribution tree and a complementary 4 × 2 combination tree is proposed. The distribution and combination trees are based on multi-mode interference couplers (MMI). The novelty lies in the use of the intrinsic phase relations between the MMI ports to realize a broadband and free of drift design requiring no static phase shift elements. A transfer-matrix approach is followed to represent the main building blocks in the proposed design, and hence to describe the operation of the entire optical up-conversion mixer. The concept is demonstrated by computer simulations. A single side-band modulation with carrier suppression is obtained at the output of the proposed architecture, which is in agreement with the analytical development. Scenarios considering both ideal and imperfect power balances and phase relations in the MMIs, as well as imperfect phase relations of the electrical drives to the phase modulators are analyzed.
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hal-01257844 , version 1 (18-01-2016)

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Ramon Maldonado-Basilio, Mehedi Hasan, Hamdam Nikkhah, Sawsan Abdul-Majid, Rabiaa Guemri, et al.. Electro-optic up-conversion mixer amenable to photonic integration. Journal of Modern Optics, 2015, 62 (17), pp.1405 - 1411. ⟨10.1080/09500340.2015.1042083⟩. ⟨hal-01257844⟩
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