Versatile, high bandwidth, RF and microwave photonic Hilbert transformers based on Kerr micro-combs

Conference held 22–27 January 2022 San Francisco, California, United States and 20–24 February 2022 ONLINE. Session #Planar Lightwave Circuits I.We experimentally demonstrate bandwidth-tunable RF photonic Hilbert transformer based on an integrated Kerr microcomb source. The micro-comb is generated by an integrated micro-ring resonator with a free spectral range of 48.9 GHz, yielding 75 micro-comb lines in the telecom C-band. By programming and shaping the generated comb lines according to calculated tap weights, we demonstrate high-speed Hilbert transform functions with tunable bandwidths ranging from 1.2 GHz to 15.3 GHz, switchable center frequencies from baseband to 9.5 GHz, and arbitrary fractional orders. The experimental results show good agreement with theory and confirm the effectiveness of our approach.Yang Li, Mengxi Tan, Jiayang Wu, Xingyuan Xu, Yang Sun, Andreas Boes, Bill Corcoran, Thach G. Nguyen, Sai T. Chu, Brent E. Little, Roberto Morandotti, Arnan Mitchell, David J. Mos