Photonic up-conversion frequency utilizing harmonic balance simulation analysis

Author

Mohamed, N. ; Idrus, S.M. ; Mohammad, A.B. ; Harun, H.

Author_Institution

Coll. of Sci. & Technol., Univ. Teknol. Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

fYear

2010

fDate

5-7 July 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper reveals a model of an optical front-end receiver with an intermediate frequency (IF) signal transmission utilizing photonic up-conversion technique through harmonic balance simulation analysis. This technique is proposed at base station (BS) merited by the dispersion effect that occurs on the fiber at higher frequency signals. Heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) is modeled as an optoelectronic mixer (OEM) due to the nonlinearities of HBT to attain the up-conversion signal. IF modulated input signal is in the range of 0.1 GHz to 0.4 GHz and the local oscillation (LO) frequency of 30 GHz is pumped to the base terminal with input power of -10 dBm. 30.4 GHz up-converted frequency with about -2.32 dBm of conversion gain is obtained at V_BE = 0.76 V based on simulation study.

Keywords

heterojunction bipolar transistors; integrated optoelectronics; microwave photonics; millimetre wave mixers; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical frequency conversion; optical receivers; radio-over-fibre; HBT; RoF system; base station; dispersion effect; frequency 0.1 GHz to 0.4 GHz; frequency 30 GHz; harmonic balance simulation analysis; heterojunction bipolar transistor; intermediate frequency signal transmission; millimeter-wave transmission; optical front-end receiver; optical nonlinearity; optoelectronic mixer; photonic upconversion frequency; radio-over-fiber; Heterojunction bipolar transistors; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Optical mixing; dispersion effects; frequency up-conversion; heterojunction bipolar transistor; optoelectronic mixer;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics (ICP), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Langkawi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7186-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICP.2010.5604416

Filename

5604416