Optical frequency up-conversion of UWB monocycle pulse based on pulsed-pump fiber optical parametric amplifier

Optical Transmission Systems, Switching, and Subsystems VII, 2009; Asia Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition, ACP, 2009We propose a method to realize frequency up-conversion of UWB monocycle pulse using pulsed-pump fiber optical parametric amplifier (OPA). The spectrum of the amplified signal contains many discrete frequency components which are separated by the modulation frequency of the pump. Each frequency components contain the same spectral information as that of the original signal. By selecting the first-order or higher-order frequency components of the amplified signal and beating in the photodetector, up-converted signal at different frequencies are obtained. We demonstrate frequency up-conversion of baseband UWB monocycle pulse from 3-GHz to 19-GHz in the experiment and frequency up-conversion of pseudo-random binary sequence (PRBS) signal from 3-GHz to 60-GHz in the simulation. © 2009 SPIE-OSA-IEEE.published_or_final_versio