High-Speed and Wideband Frequency-Hopping Microwave Signal Generation via Switching the Bias Point of an Optical Modulator

High-Speed and Wideband Frequency-Hopping Microwave Signal Generation via Switching the Bias Point of an Optical Modulator

A novel photonic approach to generate high-speed and wideband frequency-hopping microwave signal via switching the bias point of a dual-drive Mach-Zehnder modulator (DD-MZM) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The core component of the system is a DD-MZM. By switching the bias point of the...

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Main Author: Yang Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2018-01-01
Series:IEEE Photonics Journal
Subjects:
Microwave photonics
frequency hopping
radar
modulators.
Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8268095/
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spelling doaj-cb3d0ed2dab44718988c9e66d3c0a9dd2021-03-29T17:45:15ZengIEEEIEEE Photonics Journal1943-06552018-01-011011710.1109/JPHOT.2018.27972738268095High-Speed and Wideband Frequency-Hopping Microwave Signal Generation via Switching the Bias Point of an Optical ModulatorYang Chen0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3400-1661School of Information Science and Technology, East China Normal University, Shanghai, ChinaA novel photonic approach to generate high-speed and wideband frequency-hopping microwave signal via switching the bias point of a dual-drive Mach-Zehnder modulator (DD-MZM) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The core component of the system is a DD-MZM. By switching the bias point of the DD-MZM between the quadrature transmission point and the minimum transmission point, frequency hopping between two frequencies can be realized with an ultra-high frequency-hopping speed and a very wide bandwidth. The proposed approach has a compact structure and good tunability. A proof-of-concept experiment is performed to verify the principle of the proposed technique. Tunable frequency-hopping microwave signals between two frequencies of 4 and 8 GHz, 9 and 18 GHz, or 12 and 24 GHz are generated with a frequency-hopping speed up to 1 GHz.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8268095/Microwave photonicsfrequency hoppingradarmodulators.
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High-Speed and Wideband Frequency-Hopping Microwave Signal Generation via Switching the Bias Point of an Optical Modulator
IEEE Photonics Journal
Microwave photonics
frequency hopping
radar
modulators.
author_facet Yang Chen
author_sort Yang Chen
title High-Speed and Wideband Frequency-Hopping Microwave Signal Generation via Switching the Bias Point of an Optical Modulator
title_short High-Speed and Wideband Frequency-Hopping Microwave Signal Generation via Switching the Bias Point of an Optical Modulator
title_full High-Speed and Wideband Frequency-Hopping Microwave Signal Generation via Switching the Bias Point of an Optical Modulator
title_fullStr High-Speed and Wideband Frequency-Hopping Microwave Signal Generation via Switching the Bias Point of an Optical Modulator
title_full_unstemmed High-Speed and Wideband Frequency-Hopping Microwave Signal Generation via Switching the Bias Point of an Optical Modulator
title_sort high-speed and wideband frequency-hopping microwave signal generation via switching the bias point of an optical modulator
publisher IEEE
series IEEE Photonics Journal
issn 1943-0655
publishDate 2018-01-01
description A novel photonic approach to generate high-speed and wideband frequency-hopping microwave signal via switching the bias point of a dual-drive Mach-Zehnder modulator (DD-MZM) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The core component of the system is a DD-MZM. By switching the bias point of the DD-MZM between the quadrature transmission point and the minimum transmission point, frequency hopping between two frequencies can be realized with an ultra-high frequency-hopping speed and a very wide bandwidth. The proposed approach has a compact structure and good tunability. A proof-of-concept experiment is performed to verify the principle of the proposed technique. Tunable frequency-hopping microwave signals between two frequencies of 4 and 8 GHz, 9 and 18 GHz, or 12 and 24 GHz are generated with a frequency-hopping speed up to 1 GHz.
topic Microwave photonics
frequency hopping
radar
modulators.
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8268095/
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