TY - JOUR
T1 - Large Bandwidth Photonic Microwave Image Rejection Mixer With High Conversion Efficiency
AU - Zhang, Wu
AU - Wen, Aijun
AU - Gao, Yongsheng
AU - Shang, Shuo
AU - Zheng, Hanxiao
AU - He, Hongye
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/6
Y1 - 2017/6
N2 - A photonic microwave image rejection mixer (IRM) with large operating frequency range and high conversion efficiency is presented in this paper. The scheme is achieved by using a photonic microwave phase shifter, which is based on a polarization-division multiplexing Mach-Zehnder modulator (PDM-MZM). Thanks to the large operating frequency range of the photonic microwave phase shifter, the operating frequency of the proposed IRM can extend to 40 GHz. Besides, the system has high conversion efficiency, owing to the suppression of the optical carrier and application of balanced photodetector. To verify the scheme, an experiment is performed. Experimental results demonstrated large operating frequency range (5-40 GHz) and high image rejection ratio (40 dB) of the mixer. Compared with the conventional photonic microwave mixer, a 19-dB improvement of conversion efficiency is realized in the experiment.
AB - A photonic microwave image rejection mixer (IRM) with large operating frequency range and high conversion efficiency is presented in this paper. The scheme is achieved by using a photonic microwave phase shifter, which is based on a polarization-division multiplexing Mach-Zehnder modulator (PDM-MZM). Thanks to the large operating frequency range of the photonic microwave phase shifter, the operating frequency of the proposed IRM can extend to 40 GHz. Besides, the system has high conversion efficiency, owing to the suppression of the optical carrier and application of balanced photodetector. To verify the scheme, an experiment is performed. Experimental results demonstrated large operating frequency range (5-40 GHz) and high image rejection ratio (40 dB) of the mixer. Compared with the conventional photonic microwave mixer, a 19-dB improvement of conversion efficiency is realized in the experiment.
KW - high conversion efficiency
KW - Image rejection mixer (IRM)
KW - photonic microwave phase shifter
KW - Polarization-division multiplexing Mach-Zehnder modulator (PDM-MZM)
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U2 - 10.1109/JPHOT.2017.2681663
DO - 10.1109/JPHOT.2017.2681663
M3 - 文章
AN - SCOPUS:85019963048
SN - 1943-0655
VL - 9
JO - IEEE Photonics Journal
JF - IEEE Photonics Journal
IS - 3
M1 - 7876749
ER -