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High Extinction Tunable RF Analogues of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency using Brillouin Scattering for Filtering m-QAM Signals

Reena Parihar, Amol Choudhary

Published Dec 7, 2023• 0 citations

Abstract

In this paper, we proposed a novel approach to realize analogues of electromagnetically induced transmission response in the RF domain, which is also tunable in terms of frequency of operation. The demonstrated filter has been realized using Brillouin scattering and advanced phase engineering. An extinction ratio of 80 dB at a total optical pump power of 13 dBm has been achieved. We transmitted a quadrature amplitude modulated (QAM) signal through the filter and observed the effect on error vector magnitude (EVM).

DOI: 10.1109/wrap59682.2023.10712964

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