Wideband microwave photonic downconverters with high dynamic range and high conversion efficiency

Author

Altaqui, A. ; Chan, E.H.W. ; Minasian, Robert A.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Photonics & Opt. Sci., Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

fYear

2014

fDate

6-10 July 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Microwave photonic frequency conversion is a key function that is essential in many optical-wireless system applications. Photonic mixers are attractive because of the wide bandwidth potential, the high isolation between the RF and the LO ports, and the advantage of electromagnetic interference immunity. Recent new methods in wideband microwave photonic downconverters, including carrier suppression techniques that can achieve high conversion efficiency, and new linearized structures that can achieve a high spurious free dynamic range, are presented.

Keywords

electromagnetic interference; microwave frequency convertors; microwave photonics; optical frequency conversion; LO ports; carrier suppression techniques; electromagnetic interference immunity; high conversion efficiency; high dynamic range; many optical-wireless system applications; microwave photonic frequency conversion; photonic mixers; wideband microwave photonic downconverters; Microwave photonics; Mixers; Optical fibers; Optical modulation; microwave photonics; mixers; photonic signal processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2014 16th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Graz

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2014.6876723

Filename

6876723