The invention relates to a method for all-optically generating a sextuple frequency high-speed
millimeter wave and belongs to the technical field of
optical communication. The method comprises the following steps: mutually cascading two standard Mach-Zehnder modulators; respectively driving the two standard Mach-Zehnder modulators by low-speed
radio frequency signals; respectively choosing offset points of the two standard Mach-Zehnder modulators as the highest point and the lowest point of a
transmission curve; and simply controlling amplitudes and phases of
radio frequency driving signals of the two standard Mach-Zehnder modulators, thereby acquiring the high-speed
millimeter wave, the repeated frequency of which is sextuple frequency of the
radio frequency signals. According to the method provided by the invention, a linear optical frequency multiplying process is used for generating the
millimeter wave which has excellent spectrum purity and
phase coherence. Expensive high-speed photoelectric element and complex
nonlinear signal processing process are unnecessary according to the method, thereby greatly lowering the configuration cost and simplifying the
system structure. If a high-speed element is adopted while the
system structure is unchanged, the
frequency band can be easily increased to above 100GHz. The method has wide application prospect in future
wireless wideband communication.