Photonics Based Microwave Hybrid Coupler With Tunable Coupling Ratio and Phase Difference

Yanliang Zhang, Erwin H.W. Chan, Xudong Wang, Xinhuan Feng, Bai Ou Guan

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    Abstract

    A new microwave hybrid coupler that solves the problems of limited bandwidth and reconfigurability in conventional couplers, is presented. It is based on a bi-directional operating optical phase modulator and an optical signal processor to control the amplitude and phase of the phase modulated optical signals. The use of photonic technology enables the realization of a microwave hybrid coupler with wide coupling ratio and phase tuning ranges. The photonics based microwave hybrid coupler also has a wide bandwidth, and a small amplitude and phase imbalance. Experimental results demonstrate that the microwave hybrid coupler exhibits 3 dB to 20 dB coupling ratio tuning and 0° to 360° phase tuning over a 3 dB operating frequency from 6 GHz to 16 GHz.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number5502012
    Pages (from-to)1-13
    Number of pages13
    JournalIEEE Photonics Journal
    Volume10
    Issue number6
    Early online date19 Oct 2018
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Dec 2018

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