Abstract
We propose a novel photonic approach for generating a background-free millimeter-wave (MMW) ultra-wideband (UWB) signal based on a conventional dual-drive Mach–Zehnder modulator (DMZM). One arm of the DMZM is driven by a local oscillator (LO) signal. The LO power is optimized to realize optical carrier suppressed modulation. The other arm is fed by a rectangular signal. The MMW UWB pulses are generated by truncating the continuous wave LO signal into a pulsed one in a photodetector (PD). The generated MMW UWB signal is background-free by eliminating the baseband frequency components because the optical power launched to the PD keeps constant all the time. The proposed method is theoretically analyzed and experimentally verified. The generated MMW UWB signal centered at a frequency of 26 GHz meets the Federal Communications Commission spectral mask very well.
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