KEYWORDS: Signal to noise ratio, Quadrature amplitude modulation, Simulations, Optical filters, Analog to digital converters, Tunable filters, Optical pulse shaping, Microwave photonics
A low signal-to-noise ratio QAM receiving method based on optical pulse shaping is proposed in this paper. By matching the shape of the optical sampling pulses with the transmitted QAM signal and quantizing with a one-bit electrical ADC, the receiving communication signals are matched filtered. Thus, the transmitting code can be recovered even if the receiving SNR is below the demodulation threshold. In simulations, 4QAM signals with SNR of 0dB are received with the bit-error rate of 1 × 10−2.
A recently proposed frequency hopping receiver based on the simultaneous photonics filtering and digitizing system can provide large receiving frequency range as well as high hopping speed by rapidly tuning the optical sampling pulses. With the increase of the hopping speed, the shape of the optical sampling pulses is changed rapidly, and the receiving performance, including the off-band suppression and receiving bandwidth of the proposed frequency hopping receiver is degraded. The performance degradation is indicated in experiments, evaluated theoretically, and analyzed by numerical simulations. Simulations on the shortest frequency hopping time indicate that the receiving passbands are broadened less than 10% with more than 25 sampling periods, and less than 1% with more than 225 sampling periods. The proposed frequency hopping receiver can receive frequency hopping signals with higher hopping speed by utilizing higher sampling rates.
Microwave photonic mixer owns the advantages of wide frequency coverage range and large processing bandwidth. However, the LO spurious of the mixer is still high, which severely limits its application where the LO spurious locate at the band of interest. In this paper, a novel microwave photonic mixer with complete suppression of LO spurious is proposed. A dual-drive mach-zehnder modulator (DD-MZM) is adopted. The LO signal and RF signal are applied to the DD-MZM through the two driven ports. The optical signal is controlled to make the LO signal to be the phase modulation and the IF signal to be the intensity modulated. Finally, after the intensity detection completed by the photodetector, only the IF signal will be preserved and the LO spurious can be all suppressed. A proof-of-concept experiment is performed. Experimental result shows that 50-dB suppression of LO spurious can be realized.
KEYWORDS: Frequency conversion, Microwave photonics, Single mode fibers, Digital signal processing, Antennas, Modulation, Telecommunications, Signal processing, Optical signal processing, Modulators
Microwave photonic frequency conversion and transmission is highly needed in modern distributed communication systems. However, the periodically power fading and co-frequency interference limits the working frequency range, transmission distance, and the number of channels. To address the above questions, a novel dual-channel microwave photonic frequency conversion and transmission method is proposed. A DPol-DPMZM modulator is applied and the dual-channel intermediate frequency (IF) signals and the local oscillator (LO) signal are both applied to the DPol-DPMZM modulator to produce optical sidebands of IF and LO signals. Through the jointly manipulate phase of optical sidebands, the periodically power fading and co-frequency interference problems can be simultaneously addressed, which guarantees the broadband and multi-channel performance of microwave photonic frequency conversion and transmission system.
Frequency-swept interferometry (FSI) is intrinsically suitable for static ranging. For dynamic targets, its ranging accuracy is deteriorated by the Doppler phenomenon, and its measurement rate is restricted by the frequency sweep rate (usually kHz level), which prevents the acquisition of accurate time-varying distance details. To solve the problems, a novel microwave-photonic dynamic FSI (MP-DFSI) for fast ranging is proposed in this paper, which uses a single-frequency laser and an electro-optic modulator (EOM) to constitute a dual-sweep laser to provide two ideal mirrored laser sweeps. The instantaneous phases of the MP-DFSI signals are modulated by both the target distance and velocity in measurement, we investigate and model the modulation relationship, present a new data fusion demodulation method for high-accuracy fast ranging, which can effectively eliminate the Doppler error and recover the continuously-varying distance at each sampling point during a whole frequency-sweep cycle. Numerical verifications demonstrate that the measurement rate of the proposed MP-DFSI can reach 10 MHz with 1 μm ranging accuracy, showing the MP-DFSI has the ability of high-accuracy fast-ranging for dynamic targets.
We propose and demonstrate an ultra-compact photonic integrated filter via dozens of tunable basic units (TBU) which allow one to obtain reconfigurable frequency selectivity from hundreds of MHz to several GHz. The chip has been fabricated in Si3N4 TriPleXTM technology and packaged for electrical programming, optical interfacing and testing in the lab. Each subunit can be independently configured both as an active processing subsystem as well as a pure interconnecting 2x2 device by proper programming of its internal coupling units. As a proof of concept, several signal processing configurations with increasing degrees of complexity are configured including broad and narrowband flat-top filtering, coherent channelization and I-Q mixing prior to an optical detection stage. This is an advanced demonstration of a programmable RF-Photonic processor built from the interconnection of independent processing subunits encompassing functions beyond optical filtering.
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