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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 19, Issue 25, Pages 24838-24848Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.024838
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- European Commission
- SANDRA project is a Large Scale Integrating Project [AAT.2008.4.4.2]
- MEMPHIS
- Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs
- Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
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We report and experimentally demonstrate the generation of impulse radio ultrawideband (UWB) pulses using a photonic chip frequency discriminator. The discriminator consists of three add-drop optical ring resonators (ORRs) which are fully programmable using thermo-optical tuning. This discriminator chip in combination with a phase modulator forms a temporal differentiator where phase modulation is converted to intensity modulation (PM-IM conversion). By means of tailoring the discriminator response using either the individual or the cascade of drop and through responses of the ORRs, first-order or second-order temporal differentiations are obtained. Using this principle, the generation of UWB monocycle, doublet and modified doublet pulses are demonstrated. The use of this CMOS-compatible discriminator is promising for the realization of a compact and low cost UWB transmitter. (C) 2011 Optical Society of America
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