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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2021
Centre National DE LA Recherche Scientifique, Paris, FR;
Universite Grenoble Alpes, Saint Martin d'Heres, FR;
Hugues Guillet De Chatellus, Saint Martin d'Heres, FR;
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, Paris, FR;
UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES, Saint Martin d'Heres, FR;
Abstract
A wideband device for the spectral analysis of a signal of interest includes a source designed to generate the signal of interest; an optical splitter element designed to spatially split the signal of interest into a first signal and a second signal; a first frequency-shifting optical cavity comprising a first frequency shifter designed to shift the optical frequency of the first signal by a first frequency fper round trip in the first cavity, the first cavity having a first trip time τ; a second frequency-shifting optical cavity comprising a second frequency shifter designed to shift the optical frequency of the second signal by a second frequency fper round trip in the second cavity, the second cavity having a second trip time τ; the first and the second optical cavity being designed such that a maximum number of round trips of the signal in the first and the second cavity is equal to predetermined N; a detector designed to coherently detect the first signal transmitted by the first cavity and the second signal transmitted by the second cavity and generate a photocurrent proportional to a luminous intensity detected by the detector, an analog low-pass filter designed to filter frequencies of the photocurrent that are lower than min (f/2, f/2) a processor configured to compute a square modulus of the photocurrent filtered by the low-pass filter, from which a temporal representation of frequency information of the signal of interest is determined.