EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON THE OPTICAL UNBALANCED MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS AS MICROWAVE FILTERS

Authors
QUOC AH TEDJINI S
Citation
Ah. Quoc et S. Tedjini, EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON THE OPTICAL UNBALANCED MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS AS MICROWAVE FILTERS, IEEE microwave and guided wave letters, 4(6), 1994, pp. 183-185
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic
Journal title
IEEE microwave and guided wave letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
10518207
Volume
4
Issue
6
Year of publication
1994
Pages
183 - 185
Database
ISI
SICI code
1051-8207(1994)4:6<183:EIOTOU>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
In this work, we study the propagation effects of a modulated lightwav e signal in an unbalanced Mach-Zehnder interferometer (UMZI). Experime ntal results of the microwave frequency response of the structure, are obtained using two lightwave network analyzers HP8702A and HP8510B wi th all optoelectronic HP83420A. It is shown that such an optical devic e could be used to perform a number of interesting microwave applicati ons. The problems appearing, in the coherent working regime and the po ssibility of integrated device realizations for millimeter-frequency s ignal processing are also discussed.