Reconfigurable Few-Mode Fiber-Based Microwave Photonic Filter

[EN] We experimentally demonstrate, for the first-time to our knowledge, tunable true-time delay line operation over a few-mode fiber link, in which the time delay can be continuously and widely tuned, from 46.3 to 105.6 ps, by simply sweeping the operating optical wavelength over the 35-nm range of...

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Autores: Nazemosadat, Elham|||0000-0003-1740-9737, Gasulla Mestre, Ivana|||0000-0001-8088-7796
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/194822
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/194822
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Optical fibers
Optical fiber dispersion
Optical device fabrication
Optical attenuators
Microwave filters
Optical refraction
Spatial diversity
Few-mode fibers
Microwave photonics
Space division multiplexing
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Sumario:[EN] We experimentally demonstrate, for the first-time to our knowledge, tunable true-time delay line operation over a few-mode fiber link, in which the time delay can be continuously and widely tuned, from 46.3 to 105.6 ps, by simply sweeping the operating optical wavelength over the 35-nm range of the C-band. This has become possible thanks to the particular modal dispersion properties of the developed double-clad step-index few-mode fiber, as it features relatively evenly-spaced incremental chromatic dispersion values among 5 spatial modes. To date, it is the first time a dispersion-diversity FMF with this property has been experimentally reported. We assess the performance of this true-time delay line when applied to microwave signal filtering in both space and wavelength diversities, where a variety of reconfigurable 5, 7 and 10-tap microwave filters with free spectral ranges ranging from 7.7 to 27.1 GHz are experimentally demonstrated.