We propose and demonstrate a self-reconfiguration network of high-precision time-frequency synchronization. The local oscillator (LO) signal and time reference signal generated by the central site are transmitted to the two-fiber unidirectional ring in opposite directions. The all-optical microwave phase conjugation and the time-frequency domain transform measurement are utilized to eliminate phase fluctuation and time delay introduced by optical fiber. The two-fiber unidirectional ring can automatically switch the working loop when the fiber link is broken and avoid manual intervention, which realizes the self-healing of the network. A 20 GHz frequency signal and 1 pulse per second time signal are transferred along a 7 km fiber ring. At 1000 s averaging time, the long-term frequency stability of the order of 10 to 16 and time stability of the order of ps can be achieved at remote sites. When the network is interrupted, the proposed system can automatically recover the time-frequency synchronization from the failure state within 37 ms.
A microwave photon signal generation method based on electrical frequency sweeping is proposed. The frequency sweeping range of the microwave photon signal is 4 times that of the frequency-swept microwave source, which can reach 380 GHz. In addition, the spectral purity of the signal is relatively high, and its optical sideband suppression ratio is greater than 96 dB, which can serve as a swept-tuned optical local oscillator (LO) of the coherent spectrum analyzer to improve the resolution of spectral analysis.
A novel photonic-enabled high frequency broadband RF canceller for in-band full-duplex wireless communication system or frequency modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radars is proposed. The phase and amplitude between reference and interference signal is matched by optical spectrum processing, and the delay time is aligned by using the dispersive element and finely tuning the wavelength of the tunable lasers. The experiment is performed. RF selfinterference cancellation with the bandwidth up to 6GHz is experimentally demonstrated with the cancellation depth of more than 26.9dB in K band.
In recent years, attacks from pseudo base stations and other kinds of illegal wireless access have emerged one after another, and more and more telecom frauds are causing numerous property losses. There is an urgent need for real-time monitoring of the utilization of wireless spectrum, so as to identify illegal signals and take appropriate protective measures promptly. Traditional wireless spectrum monitoring solutions used to be narrow-band, and due to the insufficient capabilities of data acquisition equipment, the amount of equipment needed is huge, which will lead to the increase of cost, energy consumption and maintenance complexity. We need to transmit signals from various areas to a specific place, where there is a global and full-spectrum perception device that could process and analyze wide-band signals. Therefore, a wireless channel monitoring architecture is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. Based on microwave photonics, this architecture is consisted of an optical-wireless converged network and an all-optical channelized receiver. The frequency error of the channelized receiver is no more than 50 kHz, meeting the requirement for signal analysis in 5G communications. The experiment results show that the proposed architecture could effectively monitor collected signals of different channels.
We propose and demonstrate a reconfigurable photonic fractional Fourier transformer (PFrFTer). A linear chirp light serves as the fractional Fourier transform (FrFT) kernel to rotate the time-frequency plane, forming an optical fractional Fourier domain (FrFD). The input signal is projected on the FrFD, and the FrFT of the signal is obtained. The order of the PFrFTer is reconfigurable and can be adjusted by changing the chirp rate of the light. In the experiment, we obtain the FrFT results of a typical linear frequency modulated wave (LFMW) with a bandwidth of 12 GHz at different orders based on the PFrFTer. By comparing these results with the digital FrFT calculation, it is found that the mean square error between them is less than 4×10-4, which confirms the effectiveness of the PFrFTer. Besides, we demonstrate a practical application of the reconfigurable PFrFTer: the absolute measurement of the chirp rate of an LFMW.
We demonstrated a photonics-based X-band radar system, in which the transmitter generates a linear frequency modulated signal centered at 10GHz with 2GHz bandwidth based on photonic arbitrary waveform generator (PAWG), and the receiver is based on photonic de-chirping. We conducted a field experiment on this radar system and achieved inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) imaging of non-cooperative targets (airplane), verified the possibility of its application in future radar applications.
In microwave photonic radar systems, the generation and transmission of linear frequency modulated wave (LFMW) are influenced by dispersion in the optical systems and devices. As the bandwidth of LFMW used in radar systems becomes greater, the effect of dispersion on wideband optical signal cannot be ignored and should be well compensated. Traditional compensation methods of dispersion in optical systems are facing difficulties when dealing with high order dispersion and wideband signals with demand of precise frequency control. This paper proposed a method of dispersion compensation for wideband LFMW transmission in optical systems with dispersion, based on single-side band (SSB) modulation and pre-distortion, and the linear mapping from time to frequency of LFMW. Dispersion of the transmission systems is measured to calculate the pre-distortion of LFMW. Then the single frequency laser is SSB modulated by microwave LFMW in amplitude to remove the influence from dispersion on the envelope, and the LFMW is predistorted with the calculated results in generation. In the proof-of-concept experiment, an LFMW with period of 10 us, pulse width of 8 us and instantaneous frequency from 8 GHz to 12 GHz is modulated on the laser with wave length of 1550 nm, and transmitted in dispersion fiber or devices. Second order dispersion of about 1713 ps/nm introduced by dispersion fiber is compensated in experiments. Third and fifth orders dispersion introduced by an equivalent electronic filter are compensated, and 44% improvement of the linearity of frequency modulation after compensation is obtained in the experiment.
Picosecond optical pulses are widely used in optical communication systems, such as the optical time division multiplexing (OTDM) and photonic analog-to-digital converter (ADC). We have proposed and demonstrated a simple method to generate picosecond optical pulse using the mach-zehnder modulator (MZM), phase modulator (PM) and single model fiber (SMF). The phase modulator is used to generate a frequency chirp which varies periodically with time. The MZM is used to suppress the pedestal of the pulse and improve the performance of the pulse. The SMF is used to compensate the frequency chirp. We have carried out theoretical analysis and numerical simulation for the generation process of the picosecond optical pulse. The influence of phase shift between the modulation signals loaded on the MZM and PM is analyzed by numerical simulation and the conditions for the generation of picosecond optical pulse are given. The formula for calculating the optimum length of SMF which is used to compensate the linear chirp is given. The optical pulses with a repetition frequency of 10 GHz and a pulse width of 8.5 ps were obtained. The time-bandwidth product was as small as 1.09 and the timing jitter is as low as 83 fs.
A tunable ultraflat optical frequency comb generator based on the optoelectronic oscillator (OEO) using a dual-parallel Mach–Zehnder modulator (DPMZM) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. By incorporating a tunable DPMZM-OEO, five comb lines were generated with frequency spacing from 5 to 12 GHz under a wide central wavelength tuning from 1530 to 1560 nm, and a comb flatness of 0.3 dB is obtained. The corresponding signal generated by the DPMZM-OEO is also measured, and the phase noise of the frequency tunable signals is as low as −125 dBc/Hz at 10-kHz frequency offset.
The main-to-sidelobe suppression ratio (MSSR) is significant to filters. The tap weight errors worsen the MSSR of the finite impulse response (FIR) microwave photonic filters (MPFs). The MSSR can be improved by shaping the multicarrier optical source spectra with high precision. By compensating the errors with an iteration method, the sidelobes of the amplitude response can be optimized to increase the MSSR. Such a method is simple, effective, and compatible with all FIR MPF approaches. In the experiment, optical spectra of Gaussian profiles were taken as an example, and an MSSR improvement from 50 to 63 dB was demonstrated.
A novel method to generate ultra-wideband (UWB) signals based on two differential group delay modules and one
Mach-Zehnder Modulator is proposed. Both simulation and experiments verified that the method could generate two
kinds of UWB monocycles using low bit-rate non-return-to-zero data source (1Gbps). The monocycles have a fractional
bandwidth of 127% at centre frequency 5.5GHz.
The simultaneous generation of multi-wavelength optical single sideband (SSB) modulation for wavelength division multiplex (WDM) Radio-over-Fiber systems using a differential group delay (DGD) element and a polarizer is constructed in the paper. Simulation proved the principle shows the capacity of such filtering scheme works for at least 8 channels. Experiment results accorded with simulations. Experiment also shows the operating range of the system is more than 40nm, which covers the whole C-band. The sideband suppression ratio for all possible channels is greater than 20dB.
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