Open AccessFigures of merit for self-beating filtered microwave photonic systems
Author(s) -
Daniel Pérez,
Ivana Gasulla,
J. Capmany,
Javier S. Fandiño,
Pascual Muñoz,
Hossein Alavi
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.24.010087
Subject(s) - figure of merit , optics , photonics , local oscillator , microwave , filter (signal processing) , laser , physics , optical filter , computer science , telecommunications , phase noise , computer vision
We present a model to compute the figures of merit of self-beating Microwave Photonic systems, a novel class of systems that work on a self-homodyne fashion by sharing the same laser source for information bearing and local oscillator tasks. General and simplified expressions are given and, as an example, we have considered their application to the design of a tunable RF MWP BS/UE front end for band selection, based on a Chebyshev Type-II optical filter. The applicability and usefulness of the model are also discussed.