Few-mode fibre-optic microwave photonic links

He Wen; Hongjun Zheng; Qi Mo; Amado Manuel Velázquez-Benítez; Cen Xia; Bin Huang; Huiyuan Liu; Huang Yu; Pierre Sillard; Jose Enrique Antonio Lopez; Rodrigo Amezcua Correa; Guifang Li

doi:10.1038/lsa.2017.21

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Few-mode fibre-optic microwave photonic links

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- Few-mode fibre-optic microwave photonic links
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 6, Issue 3, (2017)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA
  2.The College of Precision Instruments and Opto-Electronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
  3.School of Physics Science and Information Technology, Shandong Provincial Key Lab of Optical Communication Science and Technology, Liaocheng University, Shandong 252059, China
  4.State Key Laboratory of Optical Communication Technologies and Networks, FiberHome Telecommunication Technologies Co., Ltd, Wuhan Research Institute of Posts and Telecommunications, No. 88 Youkeyuan Road, Hongshan District, Wuhan 430074, China
  5.Prysmian Group, Parc des Industries Artois Flandres, Haisnes 62092, France
- Author bio：
  
  RA Correa, Email: r.amezcua@creol.ucf.edu
  GF Li, Email: li@creol.ucf.edu
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- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2017.21
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- Published：2017-09，
  
  Published Online：21 February 2017，
  
  Received：26 October 2016，
  
  Revised：16 February 2017，
  
  Accepted：19 February 2017
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Wen, H. et al. Few-mode fibre-optic microwave photonic links. Light: Science & Applications, 6, e17021 (2017).
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Wen, H. et al. Few-mode fibre-optic microwave photonic links. Light: Science & Applications, 6, e17021 (2017). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2017.21.

摘要

Abstract

The fibre-optic microwave photonic link has become one of the basic building blocks for microwave photonics. Increasing the optical power at the receiver is the best way to improve all link performance metrics including gain

noise figure and dynamic range. Even though lasers can produce and photodetectors can receive optical powers on the order of a Watt or more

the power-handling capability of optical fibres is orders-of-magnitude lower. In this paper

we propose and demonstrate the use of few-mode fibres to bridge this power-handling gap

exploiting their unique features of small acousto-optic effective area

large effective areas of optical modes

as well as orthogonality and walk-off among spatial modes. Using specially designed few-mode fibres

we demonstrate order-of-magnitude improvements in link performances for single-channel and multiplexed transmission. This work represents the first step in few-mode microwave photonics. The spatial degrees of freedom can also offer other functionalities such as large

tunable delays based on modal dispersion and wavelength-independent lossless signal combining

which are indispensable in microwave photonics.

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Keywords

analogue optic-fibre linkfew-mode fibrefibre nonlinearitymicrowave photonicsspace-division multiplexing

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