A generalized circuit architecture for RF-photonic frequency multiplication with minimum RF energy

@article{Hasan2018AGC,
  title={A generalized circuit architecture for RF-photonic frequency multiplication with minimum RF energy},
  author={Mehedi Hasan and Karin Hinzer and Trevor James Hall},
  journal={Journal of Modern Optics},
  year={2018},
  volume={66},
  pages={287 - 292}
}
ABSTRACT A general radio frequency (RF)-photonic circuit design for implementing frequency multiplication is proposed. The circuit consists of cascaded differentially driven Mach–Zehnder modulators (MZMs) biased at the minimum transmission point with a progressive RF phase shift of applied to each stage. The frequency multiplication factor obtained is . The novelty of the design is the reduced input RF energy required in comparison to the functionally equivalent parallel MZM configuration… 
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