Carrier conversion from terahertz wave to dual-wavelength near-infrared light for photonic terahertz detection in wireless communication.

THz waves are promising wireless carriers for next-generation wireless communications, where a seamless connection from wireless to optical communication is required. In this study, we demonstrate carrier conversion from THz waves to dual-wavelength NIR light injection-locking to an optical frequency comb using asynchronous nonpolarimetric electro-optic downconversion with an electro-optic polymer modulator. THz wave in the W band was detected as a stable photonic RF beat signal of 1 GHz with a signal-to-noise ratio of 20 dB via the proposed THz-to-NIR carrier conversion.

Waveband-shift-free optical phase conjugator based on difference-frequency generation.

In this paper, a waveband-shift-free optical phase conjugator based on difference-frequency generation (DFG-OPC) that enables broadband operation is proposed and theoretically investigated. First, the principle of phase-conjugated (PC) wave generation with the DFG-OPC is mathematically described. Using a Sagnac loop interferometer with a χ optical nonlinear material and two dispersive elements (DEs), a PC wave with the same wavelength as a signal can be generated.

Optical pump phase locking to a carrier wave extracted from phase-conjugated twin waves for phase-sensitive optical amplifier repeaters.

In this paper, an optical phase-locked loop assisted by sum-frequency and second-harmonic generation (SS-OPLL) for frequency nondegenerate optical parametric phase-sensitive amplifier repeaters is experimentally demonstrated. First, theoretical derivations show that carrier extraction from phase-conjugated twin waves (PCTWs) and reference light generation are achieved by sum-frequency generation; therefore, the SS-OPLL circuit enables optical phase locking between PCTWs and a pump wave by a simple architecture based on a balanced OPLL. Then, optical phase locking between 20-Gbit/s quadrature phase-shift keying PCTWs and an individual pump source is experimentally demonstrated.

Simultaneous detection of 10-Gbit/s QPSK × 2-ch. Fourier-encoded synchronous OCDM signals with digital coherent receiver.

We experimentally demonstrate the simultaneous detection of 10-Gbit/s quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) × 2-channel Fourier-encoded synchronous optical code division multiplexing (FE-SOCDM) signals using a digital coherent receiver, for the first time. First, we analytically verify that simultaneous detection can be achieved with an N-point discrete Fourier transform (DFT) using digital signal processing (DSP) because the N-channel Fourier encoding corresponds to an N × N inverse DFT, then the operation is experimentally confirmed. Simultaneous detection of 10-Gbit/s QPSK × 2-channel FE-SOCDM signals is evaluated.