Abstract
We describe and demonstrate experimentally a method for photonic mixing of microwave signals by using a silicon electro-optical Mach–Zehnder modulator enhanced via slow-light propagation. Slow light with a group index of , achieved in a one-dimensional periodic structure, is exploited to improve the upconversion performance of an input frequency signal from 1 to 10.25 GHz. A minimum transmission point is used to successfully demonstrate the upconversion with very low conversion losses of and excellent quality of the received modulated QPSK signal with an optimum EVM of .
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