3 December 2021 Broadband photonic RF channelizer with 66 channels based on acousto-optic frequency shifter
Bo Chen, Yangyu Fan, Ting Liu, Yongsheng Gao, Xiaoqing Xue, Yu Liu
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Abstract

Microwave photonic channelized receiver is one of the important means to realize broadband radio frequency (RF) signal reception, and it also has great application potential in the fields of radar systems and electronic warfare. In view of the above, a microwave photonic channelizer with 66-subchannels based on acousto-optic frequency shifter (AOFS) is proposed. The 11-line optical frequency comb (OFC) used in this scheme is generated via one phase modulator. The 33 optical local oscillators can be obtained using two AOFSs to shift the frequency of 11-line OFC up and down. The 33 optical local oscillators and broadband RF signal are image-rejected and downconverted in the I  /  Q receiver and output by 66 subchannels with a bandwidth of 500 MHz. The simulation results verify the complete reception of 3 to 36 GHz wideband RF signal, and the spurious-free dynamic range of the system can reach 116.3  dB  ·  Hz2/3.

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Bo Chen, Yangyu Fan, Ting Liu, Yongsheng Gao, Xiaoqing Xue, and Yu Liu "Broadband photonic RF channelizer with 66 channels based on acousto-optic frequency shifter," Optical Engineering 60(12), 126102 (3 December 2021). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.60.12.126102
Received: 12 August 2021; Accepted: 23 November 2021; Published: 3 December 2021
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KEYWORDS
Receivers

Acousto-optics

Modulation

Microwave photonics

RF photonics

Wavelength division multiplexing

Optical filters

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