基于级联双平行MZM的16倍频光生毫米波技术

为解决毫米波信号生成中存在的困难,提出了一 种基于级联双平行马赫-曾德尔调制器(DPMZM)的16倍频光生毫米波 系统。首先通过控制第1个DPMZM的直流偏压、驱动信号相位差和调制指数,完全抑制光载波 和±2阶边带,获得±4阶光边带;然后将该光波输入到另一个完全一样的DPMZM,获得±8阶光边 带和光载波输出;最后利用光滤波器(OF)滤除光载波,用光电探测器(PD)拍频得到 16倍频的毫米波输出。详细分析 了系统的工作原理,并通过仿真验证了方案的可行性。当输入射频(RF)驱动信号频率为2.5GHz时,可 得到40GHz毫米波输出,并且调制器的调制带宽仅需要 2.5GHz。本文方案具有倍频次数高、频谱纯度好等优点。     

双光频梳辅助的微波频率测量方法北大核心CSCD

为实现大频率范围内多微波频率的高精度即时测量,提出了一种基于双光频梳和法布里-珀罗滤波器(Fabry-Perot filter,FPF)的微波频率测量方案。将待测微波信号通过单边带调制加载在一路光频梳上进行频率复制,再将调制后的光信号通过一个法布里-珀罗滤波器进行信道分割。FPF的输出信号和另一路光频梳耦合后通过光解复用器实现信道化接收。通过设置合适的系统参数,可使得每个信道输出的拍频信号在同一窄带中频频段内。基于频率-光功率映射的原理,通过判断信号的存在性即可确定未知信号所处的频率段,实现信号频率的粗估计。通过对目标信道输出的微波信号进行采样、模数变换和信号处理可实现未知信号频率的高精度测量。通过实验仿真验证了所提方案的有效性,频率测量误差在±2.5 MHz内。     

一种中频相同的微波光子信道化接收机

提出一种基于相干光处理的微波信道化接收机,采 用 自由谱范围(FSR)不同的两套光频率梳(OFC,optical frequen cy combs)分别作为 光载波和光本振,使得各个信道的输出具有相同的中频。本文方法将微波信号调制到载波 OFC的每一个 频率分量上,并用法布里-珀罗(F-P)光滤波器对多个信道的调制光边带同时进行带通滤 波,然后与 本振OFC进行相干探测实现频率下转换。若载波OFC比本振OFC的FSR大于1个 信道带宽,并使 F-P滤波器的FSR与本振OFC相等,可得 到等带宽、等中频的微波信道,降低了后续电路的复杂度。对 两个相邻信道进行了实验,将9.74～9.86GHz和9.86～9.98GHz波段的信号分别下转换到两个带宽为120MHz 的中频信道,两个中频信道的中心频率仅相差4MHz分别为900MHz和 896MHz,表明本文方法能够实现等中频的信道输出。     

基于单个偏振调制器和光交错滤波器的八倍频微波信号产生研究

提出并实验验证了一种采用单个偏振调制器(PolM)的八倍频微波信号光学产生方法。PolM在大信号调制下产生多个高阶光边带,通过调节偏振控制器(PC)和检偏器,仅获得偶数阶光边带;合理调节其调制指数(射频信号功率),使得二阶边带被完全抑制,四阶边带功率明显高于六阶及其它高阶边带。采用光交错滤波器进一步抑制光载波及六阶边带,仅保留四阶边带,经光电探测器(PD)拍频获得八倍频微波信号。仿真方案选用25GHz和50GHz信道间隔的光交错滤波器,充分利用光交错滤波器的周期滤波特性,在4个频段范围内获得了连续可调的八倍频微波信号。实验结果和理论分析有效验证了所提出方案的可行性。     

全封装的薄膜铌酸锂电光调制器（特邀）

高速电光调制器是宽带光通信网络和微波光子系统中的关键元器件之一。相对于体材料铌酸锂而言,薄膜铌酸锂材料由于其较强的光场限制能力,在构建小尺寸、宽带、低半波电压的高性能电光调制芯片上有独特的优势。文章基于薄膜铌酸锂材料研制了一种3 dB带宽不低于50 GHz的电光调制芯片,并采用光纤与波导水平端面耦合的光学封装方案和基于1.85 mm同轴接头的射频封装方案,实现了全封装的薄膜铌酸锂电光调制器。测量结果表明,封装后器件的光学插入损耗小于等于5 dB,3 dB带宽大于等于40 GHz,射频半波电压小于等于3 V@1 GHz。     

基于载波抑制单边带调制的微波光子混频方案

为了克服电混频器的瓶颈,实现大带宽的信号混频,提出了一种基于双偏振双平行马赫-曾德尔调制器的微波光子混频方案。通过调节调制器的6个直流偏置电压进行载波抑制单边带调制,射频(RF)信号和本振(LO)信号分别注入调制器,相互隔离,各自调制,且在2个相互正交的偏振态上传输,最后经偏振控制器和检偏器调整到同一偏振态上进行拍频,上、下变频模式的切换只需要改变其中一个直流偏置电压。仿真与实验表明:该方案切实可行,输入的RF频率在11~25 GHz时,输出的上变频或下变频信号的RF杂散抑制比不低于25 dB,频谱纯度高,可调谐性好,变频模式之间切换方便,系统的RF/LO隔离度达到-49 dB。     

一种镜像抑制双输出的微波光子信道化接收机

微波光子信道化接收机可将待接收的射频信号转化到光域进行传输和处理,有效避免了电子瓶颈的限制,可实现超大带宽信号或多频点信号的瞬时接收,非常适用于雷达系统和电子战。该文提出一种镜像抑制双输出的微波光子信道化接收机,信号路和本振路都采用光分路器分为3路,光本振利用声光移频器实现左右移频后与信号路进入镜像抑制混频器,最终可将一个6 GHz带宽的射频信号划分到6个带宽为1 GHz的子信道完成接收。该方案无须用到光频梳且信道化效率提高1倍,子信道的信道串扰均超过22 dB,镜像抑制比约为24 dB左右,系统的无杂散动态范围可达到106.7 dB·Hz ^2∕3。     

基于双平行MZM调制器和四波混频效应的高倍频微波信号的光学生成

提出了一种基于双平行Mach-Zehnder调制器(DPMZM ) 和半导体光放大器(SOA ) 的四波混频(FWM ) 效应的 24 倍频微波信号光学生成方案,具有覆盖频段高、系统结构简单 和 频谱纯度较高等优点。在本方案中,低频率的微波信号 通过 DPMZM 对光源进行调制,调节直流偏置点使 DPMZM 的两个子 MZM 和主 MZM 均偏置在最大传输点,抑制 所有 奇数边带,进一步调节两个子 MZM 的调制深度和移相器的相移,完全抑制光载波和二阶边带,得到±4阶光边带;再经 过 SOA 发生FWM效应 , 产生±12 光边带,经过光电探测器拍频后可获得 24 倍频的微波信号。最后,通过仿真实验, 以 10GHz 的微波信号为驱动信号,得到了 240GHz 的微波信号,验证了方案的可行性。     

A continuously tunable microwave photonic notch filter with complex coefficient based on phase modulation

A continuously tunable microwave photonic notch filter with complex coefficient based on phase modulation is proposed and demonstrated. The complex coefficient is generated using a Fourier-domain optical processor (FD-OP) to control the amplitude and phase of the optical carrier and radio-frequency (RF) phase modulation sidebands. By controlling the FD-OP, the frequency response of the filter can be tuned in the full free spectral range (FSR) without changing the shape and the FSR of the frequency response. The results show that the center frequency of the notch filter can be continuously tuned from 17.582 GHz to 29.311 GHz with FSR of 11.729 GHz. The shape of the frequency response keeps unchanged when the phase is tuned.     

Photonic Frequency Upconversion by SBS-Based Frequency Tripling

We describe a photonic frequency upconversion by the stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS)-based frequency tripling method. The frequency tripling and the photonic frequency upconversion are simultaneously obtained by incorporating a dual-electrode electrooptic modulator (EOM) and a single optical source. Each electrode of the dual-electrode EOM is driven by both an intermediate frequency (IF) and a microwave radio frequency (RF) signal, respectively, along with the optical frequency tripling scheme. The dual-electrode EOM generates appropriate optical sidebands, while the IF signal is conveyed by the pump signal. After the successive SBS shifting process, one of the third optical sidebands is amplified by the narrow gain spectrum of SBS. The carrier signal at 32.493 GHz with narrow linewidth, which is amplified by 20 dB while the other signals are suppressed more than 20 dB, is obtained after photodetection. From the simultaneous frequency upconversion and tripling, an IF signal at 1 GHz is upconverted around the 32.493-GHz signal, which is tripled from the RF signal (10.831 GHz). To verify the ability of conveying broadband data that is limited in the previous method based on SBS, the upconversion of a pilot tone at 1 GHz is demonstrated, which means that the data rate exceeds 1 Gb/s. The proposed photonic frequency upconversion shows the spurious free dynamic range of 75.1 dBldrHz^2/3 , which is suitable for a wireless personal communication system adopting the analog fiber-optic link.     

基于双光频梳的多频段变频方法

为了探寻一种基于光频梳的灵活、高效的多频段变频方案,采用一个双驱动马赫-曾德尔调制器（D-MZM）和两个双平行马赫-曾德尔调制器（DP-MZM）组成的系统,由接收到的射频信号驱动D-MZM,进行单边带调制,进而得到一个载波和+1阶边带。利用两个DP-MZM分别作为两个光频梳产生器,产生两个相位相干、中心频率不同的光频梳,并进行了理论分析和实验验证;同时还研究了直流偏置点漂移对系统变频效率的影响。结果表明,所提出的变频系统,可将Ku波段的15GHz微波信号转化成3GHz,7GHz,11GHz,19GHz,23GHz和27GHz的信号;输出的微波信号信噪比可达28.82dB~29.99dB;直流偏置点的漂移量在-10%~50%范围内影响明显。该方法可为卫星通信系统提供多频段变频功能,从而满足多频段通信需求。     

Microwave photonic notch filter with complex coefficient based on four wave mixing

A microwave photonic notch filter with a complex coefficient is proposed and demonstrated based on four wave mixing (FWM). FWM effect of two single-frequency laser beams occurs in a highly nonlinear fiber (HNLF), and multi-wavelength optical signals are generated and used to generate the multi-tap of microwave photonic filter (MPF). The complex coefficient is generated by using a Fourier-domain optical processor (FD-OP) to control the amplitude and phase of the optical carrier and phase modulation sidebands. The results show that this filter can be changed from bandpass filter to notch filter by controlling the FD-OP. The center frequency of the notch filter can be continuously tuned from 5.853 GHz to 29.311 GHz with free spectral range (FSR) of 11.729 GHz. The shape of the frequency response keeps unchanged when the phase is tuned.     

A widely tunable microwave photonic notch filter with adjustable bandwidth based on multi-wavelength fiber laser

A widely tunable microwave photonic notch filter with adjustable bandwidth based on multi-wavelength fiber laser is proposed and demonstrated. The multi-wavelength fiber laser generates the multi-taps of the microwave photonic filter (MPF). In order to obtain notch frequency response, a Fourier-domain optical processor (FD-OP) is introduced to control the amplitude and phase of the optical carrier and phase modulation sidebands. By adjusting the polarization controller (PC), different numbers of taps are got, such as 6, 8, 10 and 12. And the wavelength spacing of the multi-wavelength laser is 0.4 nm. The bandwidth of the notch filter is changed by adjusting the number of taps and the corresponding bandwidths are 4.41 GHz, 3.30 GHz, 2.64 GHz and 2.19 GHz, respectively. With the additional phase shift introduced by FD-OP, the notch position is continuously tuned in the whole free spectral range (FSR) of 27.94 GHz. The center frequency of the notch filter can be continuously tuned from 13.97 GHz to 41.91 GHz. This work has been supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.11444001), and the Municipal Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin in China (No.14JCYBJC16500). E-mail:cynever@163.com      

基于级联外调制器的六倍频微波信号的光学生成技术研究

提出并实验验证了一种基于级联偏振调制器(Po lM)和双平行马赫-曾德尔调制器(DPMZM)的六 倍频微波信号的光学生成方法。PolM在射频(RF)信号调制下,会产生多个光边带,通过调 节偏振控制 器(PC)和检偏器仅获得奇数阶边带,然后通过DPMZM,其中一子MZM调制RF信号,工作在 最大 传输点(MATP),另一子MZM不调制RF信号,从而抑制掉一阶边带,保留三阶边带,经光 电探测器(PD)拍频获得六倍频微波信号。仿真结果表明,在不利用任何光、电滤波器的情况下,调 制器消光比为 理想状态(100dB)时,RF杂散抑制比(RFSSR) 为34dB。即使消光比为非理想状态(30dB)时,生成微波信号的RF SSR仍可以达到21dB。理论分析和实验结果均验证 了方案的可行性。     

Photonic Frequency Upconversion Based on Stimulated Brillouin Scattering

We demonstrate a method of photonic frequency upconversion useful in radio-over-fiber systems, which is based on Brillouin selective amplification. One of the optical sidebands generated from the applied radio-frequency carrier at 10.831GHz is selected and amplified by Brillouin gain. By carrying the 1-GHz intermediate-frequency (IF) signal on the optical carrier and beating them with the amplified sideband, the IF signal of 1 GHz is upconverted to 11.831 GHz. This scheme can also be applied to the IF signal with bandwidth larger than the Brillouin gain bandwidth. The upconverted 11.831-GHz signal has the phase noise of -83.3dBc/Hz at 10-kHz offset. Also, the proposed upconversion scheme shows the spurious-free dynamic range of 89.5 dBmiddotHz^2/3     

基于氮化硅微环和载波分离的可重构微波光子带通滤波器

基于Add-Drop型氮化硅微环滤波器,利用光学单边带调制和光载波分离的方法,实现可重构微波光子带通滤波器。滤波器带宽和带外抑制比分别达到726 MHz和37.0dB。并且通过改变光载波波长实现1.64~23.41GHz的滤波器频率调谐;通过调节微环耦合系数实现0.683~2.246GHz的滤波器带宽调谐,在带宽调谐范围内带外抑制比大于26dB。     

Bandwidth-reduced Brillouin optical time-domain analysis based on a quarter of the frequency of modulation

Aiming at the problem of high requirement for the signal generator in the Brillouin optical time-domain analysis(BOTDA) system, a quarter of the Brillouin frequency shift(BFS) of modulation is proposed to reduce the required bandwidth of the sensing system. A functional model for solving the intensity of each-order sideband of the output light of electro-optic modulator(EOM) is proposed and applied, so the spectrum with suppressed the carrier and the first-order sidebands while maximizing the se...     

载波重用微波光纤矢量信号传输系统性能研究

提出了一种基于双边带(DSB)部分载波抑制调制(OCS)方式的微波光纤传输(ROF)系统结构,实现了矢量信号的传输以及调制方式由8PSK到QPSK的转换,并使用光纤Bragg光栅(FBG)实现了光载波的重新使用,降低了系统的成本。分析了实验原理并搭建了实验链路,在中心站,采用光OCS方案产生并倍频加载了携带有1 Mbps的8PSK矢量信号的5 GHz微波信号,实验结果表明,在基站,使用FBG实现光载波重用的同时,微波信号频率由5 GHz上转换为10 GHz,传输的矢量信号调制方式由8PSK变为QPSK。通过光谱可以看出,实验链路成功实现了50 GHz nm波矢量信号的产生和传输。     

A microwave photonic phase-shifter based on wavelength conversion in a DFB laser

We propose and demonstrate a microwave photonic phase-shifter using a distributed-feedback laser-wavelength converter. Through carrier competition in the laser, information is passed from the input signal to the lasing mode. The frequency response of this conversion mechanism follows the intrinsic modulation response of the laser, which exhibits a large phase change near the relaxation frequency. Through current-control of the relaxation frequency, the phase of the wavelength-converted microwave output can be varied by more than 135/spl deg/ over a bandwidth of 1.8GHz. We further identify an operating regime that exhibits a large discrete phase shift of 114/spl deg/ at 3 GHz with negligible change in power.     

微波光子滤波技术

微波光子滤波器(MPF)是在光域内实现对微波/射频(RF)信号进行滤波的器件.由于微波光子滤波器在射频系统中具有带宽大、快速可调谐、可重构、无电磁干扰(EMI)、低损耗和重量轻等优点,因而这一类器件已经引起了越来越多的人们的兴趣.在概述微波光子滤波器基本原理基础上,分别介绍了现阶段对微波光子滤波器可调谐性、负抽头等问题基本方法的实现,并简要比较了不同方法的优缺点.最后展望了微波光子滤波技术的发展方向和技术难点.