High Conversion Efficiency Photonic Microwave Mixer With Image Rejection Capability

Zhang, J.; Chan, Erwin H. W.; Wang, X.; Feng, Xinhuan; Guan, Bai‐Ou

doi:10.1109/jphot.2016.2592327

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“…Phase-cancellation technique is another way to realize photonics-based microwave IRMs [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30], also known as Hartley architecture. Figure 5 shows the principle method.…”

Section: Photonic Irm Based On Phase-cancellation Techniquesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Methods in the first category apply an electrical 90 • hybrid to generate a pair of quadrature LOs [18] or a pair of quadrature RF signals (containing the images) [19,20]. Then, RF and LO signals are mixed in the optical domain.…”

Section: Photonic Irms Based On 90 • Electrical Hybridmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…By using integrated modulators to perform modulation by the LO and RF signals simultaneously, this problem can be avoided. For example, a single integrated dual-parallel Mach-Zehnder modulator (DPMZM) has been previously used [20], which greatly improved the stability of the system. The key problem associated with approaches in this category [18][19][20] is that they rely on an electrical 90 • hybrid to generate quadrature RF signals or LOs.…”

Section: Photonic Irms Based On 90 • Electrical Hybridmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, a single integrated dual-parallel Mach-Zehnder modulator (DPMZM) has been previously used [20], which greatly improved the stability of the system. The key problem associated with approaches in this category [18][19][20] is that they rely on an electrical 90 • hybrid to generate quadrature RF signals or LOs. Since electrical 90 • hybrids cannot maintain a precise 90 • phase difference across a wide frequency range at high frequencies, the bandwidth of IRMs is usually very limited, or, the image suppression ratio is small ( Figure 6).…”

Section: Photonic Irms Based On 90 • Electrical Hybridmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this paper, we review recent developments in photonics-based microwave IRM with an emphasis on the pre-filtering method [12][13][14][15][16][17] and the phase cancellation method [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30]. Applications of photonics-based microwave IRMs in electronic warfare, radars, satellite communications, and so on, are described [31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43], with challenges in implementing photonics-based microwave IRMs to meet the requirements of RF systems.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Photonics-Based Microwave Image-Reject Mixer

Zhu

Pan

2018

Photonics

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Recent developments in photonics-based microwave image-reject mixers (IRMs) are reviewed with an emphasis on the pre-filtering method, which applies an optical or electrical filter to remove the undesired image, and the phase cancellation method, which is realized by introducing an additional phase to the converted image and cancelling it through coherent combination without phase shift. Applications of photonics-based microwave IRM in electronic warfare, radar systems and satellite payloads are described. The inherent challenges of implementing photonics-based microwave IRM to meet specific requirements of the radio frequency (RF) system are discussed. Developmental trends of the photonics-based microwave IRM are also discussed.

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Section: Photonic Irm Based On Phase-cancellation Techniquesmentioning

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Section: Photonic Irms Based On 90 • Electrical Hybridmentioning

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Section: Photonic Irms Based On 90 • Electrical Hybridmentioning

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Section: Photonic Irms Based On 90 • Electrical Hybridmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Photonics-Based Microwave Image-Reject Mixer

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Pan

2018

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Recent advancement in the design of mixers for software‐defined radios

Mehta

Donelli

2021

Int J RF Mic Comp-Aid Eng

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The implementation of software-defined radio necessitates a versatile radio frequency (RF) front-end that can support multiple standards in different frequency bands. This article presents the state-of-the-art multiband and wideband mixers in the context of different receiver architectures suitable for softwaredefined radio (SDR). Wideband and multiband mixer designs reported in the literature are categorized on the basis of their circuit architecture. This study tabulates the results of mixer designs with an emphasis on noise figure (NF), conversion gain (CG), linearity, and image rejection ratio. The best parameters reported in the comparison are 68-84 dB of CG, 3.2 dB of NF, 2.5 mW of power consumption, 12.5 dBm of third-order input intercept point, and 0.015 mm 2 of area at different frequencies. The study also discusses the design challenges and techniques to overcome those issues. The article concludes with the summary and prospective developments for SDR architectures.

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All-optical image-reject frequency down-conversion based on cascaded electro-optical modulators

Wen

Zhang

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Optics Communications

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High Conversion Efficiency Photonic Microwave Mixer With Image Rejection Capability

Cited by 37 publications

References 18 publications

Photonics-Based Microwave Image-Reject Mixer

Photonics-Based Microwave Image-Reject Mixer

Recent advancement in the design of mixers for software‐defined radios

All-optical image-reject frequency down-conversion based on cascaded electro-optical modulators

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