High frequency and broadband signal measurements by ultrafast opto-microwave intermixing and sampling

Author

Wei-Lou Cao ; Min Du ; Lee, C.H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

207

Lastpage

209

Abstract

Low frequency replication (600 kHz to 18 MHz) of a high frequency waveform (1 GHz to 30 GHz) was achieved using a photoconductive-based optical-microwave (OM) sampler. This OM sampler performs better than a 20 GHz digitizing sampling oscilloscope and is also superior to the standard pump and probe systems with orders of magnitude improvement in data acquisition rate

Keywords

UHF measurement; high-speed optical techniques; measurement by laser beam; microwave measurement; microwave mixers; microwave photonics; phase locked loops; signal sampling; 1 to 30 GHz; 600 kHz to 18 MHz; broadband signal measurements; data acquisition rate; high frequency signal measurements; high frequency waveform; low frequency replication; photoconductive-based optical-microwave sampler; ultrafast opto-microwave intermixing; ultrafast opto-microwave sampling; Frequency measurement; Laser beams; Masers; Optical mixing; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Photoconductivity; Sampling methods; Ultrafast optics; Voltage-controlled oscillators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Photonics, 2000. MWP 2000. International Topical Meeting on

Conference_Location

Oxford

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6455-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWP.2000.889824

Filename

889824