Performance analysis of the photoparametric up-converter using harmonic balance techniques

Author

Idrus, S.M. ; Green, R.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Warwick Univ., Coventry, UK

fYear

2004

fDate

6-7 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

23

Lastpage

28

Abstract

The photoparametric amplifier (PPA) operation is based on the non-linear CV characteristics of a photodiode and therefore, the mechanism constituting gain is highly non-linear and different to that in a conventional amplifier/mixer chain. A PPA has been successfully modelled and simulated using a nonlinear microwave simulator to perform harmonics balance analysis, which represented the photodiode model and nonlinear dynamic capacitance behaviour. The simulation predicted a PPA up-conversion gain as high as 27.57 dB, and this agreed with conventional theoretical analysis. In this article, the theory of operation, the device structure of the PPA, and its characteristic are presented.

Keywords

harmonic analysis; microwave parametric amplifiers; nonlinear network analysis; optical links; optical parametric amplifiers; optical receivers; photodiodes; 27.57 dB; PPA up-conversion gain; amplifier performance analysis; harmonic balance analysis; nonlinear dynamic capacitance behaviour; nonlinear microwave simulator; optical links; optical receiver front-end; photodiode nonlinear characteristics; photoparametric amplifier; photoparametric up-converter; Analytical models; Capacitance; Frequency conversion; Low-noise amplifiers; Nonlinear optics; Operational amplifiers; Optical amplifiers; Performance analysis; Photodiodes; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Frequency Postgraduate Student Colloquium, 2004

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8426-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HFPSC.2004.1360341

Filename

1360341