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Broadband multi-frequency microwave photonic up-conversion with tunable phase shift

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A broadband multi-frequency microwave photonic up-conversion scheme with a tunable phase shift is proposed and demonstrated based on a cavity-less ultrashort optical pulse source and a dual-polarization dual-parallel Mach-Zehnder modulator (DP-DPMZM). In this scheme, the intermediate-frequency (IF) signal is loaded onto the optical frequency comb from a cavity-less ultrashort pulse source via carrier-suppressed double-sideband (CS-DSB) modulation by using a DP-DPMZM and a 90 electric hybrid coupler (HC). Through mutual beating between multi-groups of optical modulation sidebands and multi-tone optical carrier at the photodetector (PD), multi-frequency up-converted microwave signals are obtained after coherent superposition. Meanwhile, the phase of the generated signals can be continuously tuned through varying the bias voltages of the DP-DPMZM. Simulation results show that the multi-frequency up-conversion is with a 3-dB operation bandwidth of 36 GHz and a phase shift tuning range over 360. Hence, this scheme is a potential candidate to simultaneously realize broadband multi-frequency operation and generate the large-scale tunable phase shift in modern radar systems.

Microwave photonicsMulti-frequencyPhase shiftUp-conversionOPTICAL-GENERATIONMIXER

Xu, Ou、Fu, Songnian、Qin, Yuwen、Li, Jianping、Yuan, Mingxiu、Peng, Di、Xiang, Meng

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Guangdong Univ Technol

2022

Optics Communications

Optics Communications

EISCI
ISSN:0030-4018
年,卷(期):2022.520
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