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HUANG Hai-bi, LIU Wen-jie, SUN Yue-hui, WANG An-bang, QIN Yu-wen, WANG Yun-cai. Photonics generation of broadband millimeter wave noise signals with high excess noise ratios[J]. Chinese Optics, 2022, 15(2): 251-258. doi: 10.37188/CO.2021-0158

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HUANG Hai-bi, LIU Wen-jie, SUN Yue-hui, WANG An-bang, QIN Yu-wen, WANG Yun-cai. Photonics generation of broadband millimeter wave noise signals with high excess noise ratios[J].Chinese Optics, 2022, 15(2): 251-258.doi:10.37188/CO.2021-0158

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HUANG Hai-bi, LIU Wen-jie, SUN Yue-hui, WANG An-bang, QIN Yu-wen, WANG Yun-cai. Photonics generation of broadband millimeter wave noise signals with high excess noise ratios[J].Chinese Optics, 2022, 15(2): 251-258.doi:10.37188/CO.2021-0158

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Photonics generation of broadband millimeter wave noise signals with high excess noise ratios

doi:10.37188/CO.2021-0158

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School of Information Engineering, Guangdong, Provincial Key Laboratory of Photonics Information Technology, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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Key Laboratory of Advanced Transducers & Intelligent Control System, Ministry of Education, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China

Funds:Supported by the national natural science foundation of China (No. 61927811, No. 61961136002, No. 61731014); the Introduction of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Team Project of Guangdong Province

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Corresponding author:wangyc@gdut.edu.cn
Received Date:13 Aug 2021
Rev Recd Date:01 Sep 2021
Accepted Date:10 Dec 2021

Available Online:17 Dec 2021

Publish Date:21 Mar 2022

Abstract

Abstract

The Excess Noise Ratio (ENR) of traditional noise sources is usually less than 20 dB due to the limitation of the working frequency and the power of electronic devices. To solve the problem, we propose a technology to generate a millimeter-wave noise source with a high ENR by two incoherent light beams beating. First, two optical filters are used to filter and shape the broadband amplified spontaneous emission light source. Then, the two obtained beams of amplified spontaneous radiation light with different frequencies are coupled to the photodetector for the beat frequency, which can generate electrical noise signals. A theoretical analysis predicts that a noise source with an ENR larger than 50 dB can be obtained by adjusting the optical spectral, linewidth and optical power of the two incoherent light beams filtered from an amplified spontaneous emission source under the current level of photodetector responsivity. A proof-of-concept experiment achieved a millimeter-wave noise source with an ENR higher than 50 dB. This method could also generate millimeter-wave and even terahertz-wave noise with a high ENR if a higher-speed photodetector was used.
- millimeter-wave,
- noise source,
- excess noise ratio,
- microwave photonics,
- beat frequency

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