Abstract
A photonic circuit design for implementing frequency 8-tupling and 24-tupling is proposed. The front- and back-end of the circuit comprises MMI couplers enclosing an array of four pairs of phase modulators and MMI couplers. The proposed design for frequency multiplication requires no optical or electrical filters, the operation is not limited to carefully adjusted modulation indexes, and the drift originated from static DC bias is mitigated by making use of the intrinsic phase relations of multi-mode interference couplers. A transfer matrix approach is used to represent the main building blocks of the design and hence to describe the operation of the frequency 8-tupling and 24-tupling. The concept is theoretically developed and demonstrated by simulations. Ideal and imperfect power imbalances in the multi-mode interference couplers, as well as ideal and imperfect phases of the electric drives to the phase modulators, are analyzed.
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Mehedi Hasan, Rabiaa Guemri, Ramón Maldonado-Basilio, Frédéric Lucarz, Jean-Louis de Bougrenet de la Tocnaye, and Trevor Hall, "Theoretical analysis and modeling of a photonic integrated circuit for frequency 8-tupled and 24-tupled millimeter wave signal generation: erratum," Opt. Lett. 40, 5710-5710 (2015)https://opg.optica.org/ol/abstract.cfm?uri=ol-40-24-5710
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