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A photonics‐based wideband linearised mixer
Author(s) -
Chan Erwin H. W.,
Alameh Kamal E.,
Minasian Robert A.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
microwave and optical technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1098-2760
pISSN - 0895-2477
DOI - 10.1002/mop.11260
Subject(s) - spurious free dynamic range , wideband , frequency mixer , high dynamic range , photonics , dynamic range , microwave , electronic engineering , octave (electronics) , optical power , spurious relationship , power (physics) , engineering , physics , optics , electrical engineering , computer science , telecommunications , radio frequency , laser , machine learning , quantum mechanics
A new wideband linearised photonic mixer structure based on a parallel topology of two electrooptic modulators is presented. This mixer realises a high spurious free‐dynamic range (SFDR), with additional advantages of requiring only a small amount of optical power and operating over a multioctave range. Experimental results for the linearised photonic mixer demonstrate a measured receiver‐noise limited SFDR of 115 dB · Hz 4/5 with a low input optical‐power requirement of only 5 mW. This offers multi‐octave high dynamic range optical frequency conversion with wideband operation. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 39: 500–502, 2003