High-isolation microwave photonic sub-harmonic mixer

J. L. Zhang; X. D. Wang; Y. Cao; X. H. Feng; B. O. Guan; E. H. W. Chan; Ieee [Unknown]

doi:10.1109/MWP.2017.8168679

High-isolation microwave photonic sub-harmonic mixer

J. L. Zhang, X. D. Wang, Y. Cao, X. H. Feng, B. O. Guan, E. H. W. Chan, Ieee [Unknown]

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Abstract

A microwave photonic sub-harmonic mixer with a wide bandwidth, high RF-to-LO isolation and high RF/LO-to-IF isolation is presented. High isolation between the RF port and the LO port is obtained by separately applying the RF signal and the LO into two Mach Zehnder modulators, which are far apart, inside an integrated four-parallel Mach Zehnder modulator to avoid crosstalk between signal electrodes. High isolation between the RF/LO port and the IF port is obtained by designing the bias voltages of the modulator to largely suppress the optical carrier. Experimental results demonstrate sub-harmonic frequency mixing operation with > 38 dB LO-to-IF isolation, > 40 dB RF-to-LO isolation and > 5 dB conversion efficiency for an input RF signal frequency range of 0.5-40 GHz.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2017 International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	1-4
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-5386-0762-6
ISBN (Print)	978-1-5386-0763-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MWP.2017.8168679
Publication status	Published - 2017
Event	2017 International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics - Tsinghua Univ, Beijing, China Duration: 23 Oct 2017 → 26 Oct 2017

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Conference	2017 International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics
Country/Territory	China
City	Tsinghua Univ, Beijing
Period	23/10/17 → 26/10/17

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