Dual-cavity resonant modulators for efficient narrowband RF/microwave photonics
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Ehrlichman, Yossef; Dostart, Nathan; Popovic, Milos A.
- Source
- 2016 IEEE International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics (MWP) Microwave Photonics (MWP), 2016 IEEE International Topical Meeting on. :165-168 Oct, 2016
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Cavity resonators
Radio frequency
Frequency modulation
Resonant frequency
Amplitude modulation
Optical resonators
- Language
We propose a novel RF photonic modulator that Is based on a coupled dual-cavity resonator. We show that such a coupled cavity system can perform efficient RF-to-optical signal conversion, in one example with more than 30 dB improvement over a single-cavity resonant modulator.