Numerical Study of a Reconfigurable Multiband Microwave Photonic Filter Using a Tunable Fabry-Perot Filter

Microwave photonic filters (MPFs) with the capabilities of bandwidth reconfigurability and frequency tunability in the GHz range are of great interest in high-speed communications systems. In this paper, we propose a new reconfigurable multiband microwave photonic filter (MPF) using a tunable Fabry-Perot Filter (FPF). It is demonstrated by numerical simulations that the modification of the intermodal separation (delta lambda) of a multimode laser diode (MLD) by tunable FPF allows for the reconfigurable multi-passband of the MPF. Our simulation results show that our new filter system is promising to communications systems.