Photonic instantaneous microwave frequency measurement based on phase modulated links with interferometric detection assisted by a polarizer

Author

Wang, Dapeng ; Xu, Kun ; Dai, Jian ; Wu, Zhongle ; Gui, Lin ; Lin, Jintong

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Inf. Photonics & Opt. Commun., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Beijing, China

fYear

2011

fDate

13-16 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

A novel photonic scheme of instantaneous frequency measurement (IFM) using analog modulation links with interferometric detection assisted by a polarizer is proposed and demonstrated experimentally. This scheme is simple, cost-effective as it only requires the basic modulation-demodulation elements in typical analog optical links. The measurement errors as shown in experimental results can be kept in 0.1GHz over a frequency range of 0.1GHz-6.5GHz.

Keywords

frequency measurement; light interferometers; microwave photonics; optical modulation; optical polarisers; phase modulation; analog modulation links; analog optical links; frequency 0.1 GHz to 6.5 GHz; interferometric detection; microwave photonics; modulation-demodulation elements; phase modulated links; photonic instantaneous microwave frequency measurement; polarizer; Abstracts; Frequency measurement; Frequency modulation; Optical fiber communication; Optical modulation; Optical polarization; Photonics; Frequency measurement; interferometric detection; microwave photonics; optical microwave signal processing; phase modulation; polarizer;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition, 2011. ACP. Asia

Conference_Location

Shanghai

ISSN

2162-108X

Print_ISBN

978-0-8194-8961-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1117/12.905609

Filename

6210723