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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Tunable Slow and Fast Light Generation and the Applications in Microwave Photonics

Shahoei, Hiva January 2014 (has links)
In this thesis, new techniques to generate slow and fast light are proposed and investigated. The use of the slow and fast light for microwave photonics applications is also investigated. This thesis consists of four parts. In the first part, the generation of slow and fast light based on fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) is studied. Two techniques are proposed. In the first technique, slow and fast light is generated based on a linearly chirped fiber Bragg grating (LCFBG); and in the second technique, slow and fast light is generated based on a tilted fiber Bragg grating (TFBG). Theoretical analysis is performed which is verified by experiments. In the second part, the applications of FBG-based slow and fast light in microwave photonics are studied. These applications include all-optical tunable microwave frequency multiplication, tunable microwave chirped pulse generation, tunable phase shifting, tunable fractional order differentiation, and tunable microwave photonic filtering. In the third part, the generation of slow and fast light based on microring resonators (MRRs) is studied. Novel methods to obtain continuously tunable slow to fast light are proposed and experimentally demonstrated by using a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) MRR with MMI (multi-mode interference) couplers, and a high-contrast Ge-doped silica-on-silicon (SOS) MRR. In the fourth part, the applications of the MRR-based slow and fast light in microwave photonics are studied. These applications include all-optical tunable fractional order differentiation, and tunable fractional order Hilbert transformation.
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Lumière lente et rapide dans les amplificateurs optiques à semi-conducteurs pour des applications en optique micro-onde et aux RADAR / Slow and fast light in semiconductor optical amplifiers. Applications in microwave photonics and RADAR

Berger, Perrine 20 February 2012 (has links)
Les techniques permettant de maitriser la vitesse de la lumière, au-delà de l'intérêt scientifique qu'elles suscitent, peuvent être appliquées au domaine radar. Elles permettent, ainsi, de remplacer avantageusement les retards optiques, jusqu'alors réalisés par des modifications géométriques du chemin optique. L’objectif de la thèse est d’étudier la lumière lente et rapide créée par oscillations cohérentes de population dans les amplificateurs à semi-conducteurs.Nous avons évalué théoriquement et expérimentalement les performances d’une ligne à retards accordables, en termes d’amplitude des retards et déphasages accordables, et de bandes passantes. Nous avons aussi étudié l’impact des oscillations cohérentes de population sur les facteurs de mérite de la liaison opto-électronique. La compréhension des mécanismes physiques mis en jeu nous a amenés à proposer des solutions pour contourner les limites identifiées du composant. Nous avons montré qu’il était possible d’utiliser les lignes à retards accordables au delà de l’inverse du temps de vie des porteurs (500 MHz) en utilisant la montée en fréquence des oscillations cohérentes de population par modulation croisée de gain. Nous avons ainsi obtenu des retards accordables de 389 ps à 16 GHz, sur une bande passante instantanée de 360 MHz. Enfin nous avons proposé une architecture permettant d’obtenir des déphasages accordables proches de 180 degrés à haute fréquence, en substituant l’effet du couplage gain-indice, révélé par l’utilisation d’un filtre optique, par l’excitation paramétrique des oscillations cohérentes de population. Nous avons utilisé ce principe, qui permet par exemple d’atteindre un déphasage accordable de 162 degrés à 2,2 GHz, pour concevoir un oscillateur optoélectronique fonctionnant à 2,2 GHz. La fréquence de ce dernier est rapidement accordable sur 6 MHz à l’aide du courant d’injection de l’amplificateur à semi-conducteur. / Slow and fast light is becoming a wide research field driven by an extensive effort to implement this new technology in real applications. Coherent population oscillations in semiconductor optical amplifiers constitute one of the most promising approaches, in particular for the processing of optically carried microwave signals, which includes the control of tunable true time delays and RF phase shifts.We studied theoretically and experimentally the available tunable delays and phase shifts and the associated bandwidths for a microwave photonics link including a semiconductor optical amplifier. We analyzed the influence of the coherent population oscillations on the dynamic range of the link.The understanding of the underlying physical mechanisms led us to propose new architectures in order to overcome the identified limitations of the components. We show how up-converted coherent population oscillations enable to get rid of the intrinsic limitation of the carrier lifetime (500 MHz), leading to the generation of true time delays at any high frequencies in a single semiconductor device. We demonstrated tunable delays up to 389 ps at 16 GHz, with an instantaneous bandwidth of 360 MHz.Lastly we demonstrate how to conceive a RF phase shifter up to 180 degrees at high frequency by forced coherent population oscillations. This effect replaces the enhancement of the coherent population oscillations by gain-index coupling effect, revealed by an optical filter. We used this principle, which enables to achieve a tunable phase shift up to 162 degrees at 2,2 GHz, in order to conceive an optoelectronic oscillator at 2,2 GHz. The frequency of this oscillator is fast tunable over 6 MHz by changing the current of the semiconductor amplifier.

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