KEYWORDS: Microwave photonics, Signal attenuation, Image processing, Scattering, Signal processing, Optical modulators, Optical amplifiers, Electrooptic modulators, Signal generators, Signal detection
The electrical mixer is limited by operation bandwidth and parallel processing capacity, and is suffering from increasingly serious electro-magnetic interference. By introducing photonic properties, microwave photonic technology has many advantages compared to the traditional microwave technology, such as low loss, large bandwidth, high parallel processing capacity, anti-electromagnetic interference and so on. In this work, a Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) based microwave photonic mixer with high image rejection capacity is proposed. Due to the high wavelength-selectivity and wideband tenability of the SBS process, the image rejection ratio of the mixer exceeds 40dB over the IF range of 80 MHz to 2 GHz and the RF range of 2 to 40 GHz.
We proposed a 2×2 SOI thermo-optic switch based on microring assisted Mach-Zehnder interferometer(RAMZI) and graphene heater. The thermo-optic switch consists of 2×2 MMI-based 3-dB coupler, and RAMZI with graphene film as heater fixed above the microring resonator. A design and optimization of the switch, including optical characteristics of MMI coupler and MZI, electro-thermal characteristics of graphene heater and the overall performance of the switch, is carried out. The thermo-optic switch is demonstrated with small footprint of 0.07 mm2 , and low power consumption on simulation.
The trend of modern radar signals towards multi format, multi frequency band, and large bandwidth has posed greater challenges to radar signal detection in electronic warfare, requiring receivers to have large instantaneous bandwidth, wide spectral coverage and high-frequency spectral resolution capabilities. Microwave photon technology, due to its advantages of low loss, large bandwidth, resistance to electromagnetic interference, and simple equipment structure, is matched with the demand for ultra wideband channelized reception. This article designs a parallel reconfigurable channelized reception scheme for high-frequency and broadband signals and conducts simulation verification. A coherent dual optical comb with 30 comb teeth is generated based on a cascaded electro-optic modulator, and a dual parallel Mach-Zehnder modulator is used to broadcast the broadband signals and frequency shifting of optical combs to achieve channel division of 17 channels. Finally, a filter was used to filter out the signal from a single free spectral region of the optical comb for down conversion, achieving information extraction of high-frequency broadband signals with a bandwidth smaller than the free spectral range of the optical frequency comb using a small free spectral region optical frequency comb.
The high-frequency and tunable microwave signals are highly desirable in the files of military and civilian. The microwave photonic technology is an important solution to generate high-frequency and tunable microwave signals. Among them, the integrated microwave photonic solutions have a broader application prospect due to its small size, large bandwidth, and low power consumption, etc. We demonstrate a design of the monolithic integrated coupled DFB lasers (IC-DFB) to generate tunable microwave signal. A semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) is integrated between DFB lasers to adjust the coupling strength. By tuning the injection current of the SOA section, microwave signals with a tuning range from 31 GHz to 35 GHz is achieve.
We proposed an ultra-wide-band microwave photonics flexible frequency conversion scheme for integrated electronic systems, meeting the requirements of frequency conversion for multifunctional signal without crosstalk. The reconfigurable microwave photonics filter is exploited to achieve the flexible segmentation of optical broadband microwave signal with different center frequency and elastic bandwidth. The LO optical signal adapted to the signal frequency and target IF frequency is provided by the signal optical carrier, and the carrier-suppression single sideband mode of DPMZM ensures the flexible frequency conversion function. The numerical simulation of the proposed scheme is introduced to verify the feasibility and effectiveness, and three analog wideband signals are flexibly and efficiently converted to the target frequency with almost no crosstalk interference.
The increasing demands for enhance information security in the national defense and military applications such as satellite communication and integrated RF front end, have led to a critical requirement for high-speed frequency-hopping systems. However, the traditional frequency-hopping systems which is based on electrical domain is limited by its own electronic bottleneck. For example, the bandwidth is generally limited to several GHz, and the speed is generally limited to ms. Therefore, this paper innovatively propose a frequency-hopping system which has wide hopping-frequency bandwidth and frequency-hopping speed by using microwave photonics. The system has a frequency hopping bandwidth of more than 70GHz, a hopping speed of up to ns, and a maximum support of 35 frequency points, which can greatly expand the application prospect of secure communication.
Concerning future ultra wideband (UWB) real-time measurement of electromagnetic spectrum demand in electromagnetic battlefield, this paper proposes a frequency-time mapping measurement method based on microwave photonics. Frequency-time mapping, or real-time Fourier transform, maps the input ultra-wideband electromagnetic spectrum information to the output time-domain waveform. The electromagnetic spectrum signal is modulated to light by CS-SSB modulation, and frequency-time mapping is formed by using electrically modulated micro-ring. Through simulation verification, the method can achieve frequency measurement of panoramic bandwidth signal from100MHz to 30GHz.The frequency resolution can reach 80 MHZ, whose scanning time is less than 20us. The method can achieve ultra-high speed, high-precision, broadband measurement of wideband complex electromagnetic spectrum situation, providing technical support for future electromagnetic spectrum operations.
KEYWORDS: Channel projecting optics, Frequency combs, Modulators, Signal detection, Mirrors, Control systems, Single mode fibers, Oscillators, Microwave photonics, Modulation
For the urgent demand of the broadband, high efficient, parallel processing and anti-jamming capability in the field of ultra-wideband measurement control and communication. This paper puts forward a kind of channelized receive technology based on microwave photonic technology. The coherent optical comb generation module generates the signal optical comb and the local oscillator optical comb. The coherent optical comb with high repetition frequency is obtained by using cascade modulator and nonlinear technique. In order to satisfy the 10 comb tooth designed for the system, the FSR of coherent optical frequency comb is greater than 100GHz and 99.4GHz respectively, and the channel bandwidth is 600MHz. The channel division module receives the broadband RF signal from the RF front-end and modulates it to the optical frequency comb. By DPMZM single sideband modulation, 10 optical combs can be used to shift the frequency of the oscillator frequency comb. At the same time, according to the position of the 6GHz signal, the frequency comb is accurate controlled. After the WDM multiplexing device, it is selected by the high-speed optical switch controlled by the control unit. The photoelectric detection and mirror frequency suppression are realized by coherent demodulation, which consists of an optical mixer, a balance detector and a bridge. Which realizes channelized reception and cross-frequency conversion of any 6GHz wideband signal from the DC to 40 GHz band. Achieve 3dB channel consistency and mirror frequency suppression above 30dB. The results are verified by simulation and experiment. This method can also be extended to receive ultra-high speed frequency hopping signals. Which can provides technical support for ultra-wideband measurement control and communication, integrated RF front-end and electromagnetic space integration system.
Vector beam lasers are highly desirable for wide applications ranging from manipulation to communications. In this paper, we report the first directly modulated vector beam laser with azimuthally polarized emission. It’s a microcylinder cavity added with proper second order grating on the top, which enables single-mode lasing and efficient surface emission. Through theoretically and numerically analysis, the lasers are designed in detail. With optimized top grating, the emission is azimuthally polarized vector beam.
In the fields of ultra-wideband satellite communication, integrated radio frequency, radar and other national defense and military at present, it is necessary to realize the interconversion between baseband signals and radio frequency signals in Ka or even U band and L band to meet the processing requirements of RF front-end. Traditional electronic technology usually uses multistage local vibration mixing to realize frequency conversion, which is complicated and accompanied by serious nonlinearity and noise accumulation. As a kind of multi-wavelength light source, optical frequency beam can provide stable multiple local oscillations in the optical domain, and move the baseband/RF signals to the optical domain to achieve flexible mixing processing. In this paper, an UWB microwave photonic mixing technology based on optical frequency comb is innovatively proposed. UWB octave-spanning up-conversion from 10MHz to 60.01 GHz and down-conversion can be achieved by using only 20 GHz microwave driver, which effectively improves the RF preprocessing capability of UWB transmitter in the field of national defense and military.
A differentiator-based photonic approach for the instantaneous microwave frequency measurement (IFM) using a phase modulator and an optical Gaussian filter is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. A microwave frequency measurement with high resolution is achieved by a monotonous frequency-to-power mapping obtained by differential operation in optical domain. A proof-of-concept experiment has been performed, in which a measurement error less than ±0.1 GHz over the frequency range 0.1-10 GHz with input power of 0 dBm is demonstrated. The measurement error of the IFM system is still less than ±0.24 GHz, even though input signal power decreases to -30 dBm. The approach suggests a potential capacity for integrated IFM by using all-optical computing.
Photonic generation and processing of high-frequency and large-bandwidth microwave arbitrary waveforms have become an increasingly important area that can find numerous applications, such as in ultrawide-band (UWB) communication systems, radar, and other warfare systems, and the quality directly decides the system performance. Based on the microwave photonic channelization, arbitrary waveforms were generated through dual optical frequency combs (OFCs) with different free spectrum ranges (FSR). Due to the multiple optical channels with tunable amplitude and phase, the fundamental and higher harmonics are generated simultaneously and used to synthesize into the required waveforms. Combining the advantages of low-loss broadband photonics and microwave with fine narrowband control, the proposed channelized synthesis arbitrary waveform overcomes the electronic bottleneck of ultra-wideband analog processing and opens up a whole new solution to microwave signal generation. The simulation experiment system based on Optisystem software is conducted, the results confirm that an arbitrary wave, such as triangular, square, and sawtooth will be generated by adjusting the channel parameters, and the accuracy of the generated waveforms can be improved by introducing the fifth Fourier component. Compared to the waveform synthesized by the third-order harmonic, the root mean square error (RMSE) of the fifth-order harmonic is increased by 17%-20%.
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