Tunable Dual-Passband Microwave Photonic Filter Based on Stimulated Brillouin Scattering

A novel ultra-narrow dual-passband microwave photonic filter (MPF) with wide tunability based on stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) is presented. The proposed dual-passband MPF is implemented via the usage of carrier suppressed modulation of an electrooptic modulator (EOM). The passband separation of the dual-passband filter is determined by the oscillation radio frequency (RF) that is applied onto the EOM, where the frequency change of the RF oscillator results in two times the bandpass frequency shift with a central frequency that is symmetric with respect to the SBS frequency shift. A complete theoretical model based on the combined effects of the Brillouin gain and loss in a dual-wavelength Brillouin pump structure is presented to characterize the filter RF responses. Experimental results show a widely tunable dual-passband MPF that has an ultra-narrow bandwidth of 20.1MHz with over 35 dB out-of-band rejection ratio and a 20–3-dB bandwidth shape factor of 2.5.

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