Experimental Generation of Reconfigurable Ultra-Wideband Signal Based on the Pulse Difference by Using Optical Polarization Synthesis

A reconfigurable optical ultra-wideband (UWB) pulse generation scheme based on the pulse difference by using polarization synthesis is proposed and demonstrated experimentally. The Gaussian pulses with an appropriate time delay are modulated via the two sub-MZMs of the DPol-MZM, and the optically carried signals are combined via orthogonal polarization multiplexing, avoiding the optical interference. By setting the DC bias voltages of the sub-MZMs and the time delay, a pair of polarity-reversed Gaussian monocycle, doublet, triplet and quadruplet signals are generated with the central frequency of 3.37, 4.79, 4.5, 5.05 GHz and the fractional bandwidths of 166%, 129%, 124%, 89% accordingly. The signals of pulse shape modulation, binary phase shift keying modulation and on-off keying modulation are generated with the experimental system.