Open AccessWide-band RF receiver based on dual-OFC-based photonic channelization and spectrum stitching technique
Author(s) -
Jiyao Yang,
Ruoming Li,
Yitang Dai,
Jingwen Dong,
Wangzhe Li
Publication year - 2019
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.27.033194
Subject(s) - channelized , image stitching , optics , radio frequency , computer science , jitter , multi band device , passband , electronic engineering , materials science , physics , telecommunications , band pass filter , antenna (radio) , engineering
A novel wide-band RF receiver based on a dual-OFC-based channelization and spectrum stitching technique is proposed and demonstrated experimentally. In the scheme, a dual-OFC-based channelizer is utilized as the front-end to slice the RF signals into multiple channels. In the back-end, through the channel estimation and spectrum stitching, the received signals can be well reconstructed in the digital domain. A proof-of-concept experiment is performed, in which signals with 3 GHz bandwidths are sliced and reconstructed using the proposed receiver with a normalized mean squared error (NMSE) of 7.9×10 -3 . The performances of the reconstructed signals on pulse compression are also demonstrated to evaluate the potential of the proposed technique in practical applications.