A novel fiber-optic link with remote heterodyning for phase stabilized transmission of microwave and millimeter wave signals

Author

Bratchikov, A.N. ; Voskresenskii, D.I. ; Sadekov, T.A.

Author_Institution

Fac of Radio Electron. of Flying Vehicles, MAI-Tech. Univ., Moscow, Russia

Volume

3

fYear

2000

fDate

11-16 June 2000

Firstpage

1833

Abstract

A new method has been proposed and developed for phase-stabilized transmission of microwave and millimeter wave antenna signals using a fiber-optic link with a novel configuration and operating in the remote heterodyning mode. Fiber-optic link configuration proposed is based on extended transversal or/and recurrence fiber filters and takes advantage of pseudo-flat input-output phase transfer characteristics of the aforementioned filters and their combinations. Spectral-noise characteristics of proposed fiber link are theoretically analyzed for remote heterodyning mode of operation. Phase stabilized properties are experimentally verified for intensity modulation mode of fiber link operation.

Keywords

Heterodyne detection; Microwave photonics; Optical fibre communication; Optical fibre filters; Optical modulation; antenna signals; extended transversal fiber filters; fiber-optic link; intensity modulation mode; microwave signals; millimeter wave signals; phase stabilized transmission; pseudo-flat input-output phase transfer characteristics; recurrence fiber filters; remote heterodyning; spectral-noise characteristics; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber filters; Optical fiber networks; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Phased arrays; Transmission line matrix methods; Transmitting antennas; Transversal filters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest. 2000 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Boston, MA, USA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5687-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2000.862337

Filename

862337