Author Affiliations
Abstract
National Key Laboratory of Microwave Photonics, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
An approach for frequency division of an optical pulse train (OPT) based on an optoelectronic oscillator (OEO) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. When the OPT is injected into the OEO, a microwave signal with a frequency equaling fractional multiples of the repetition rate of the OPT is generated. This signal is then fed back to the OEO, maintaining its oscillation, while simultaneously serving as the control signal of a Mach–Zehnder modulator (MZM) in the OEO. The MZM acts as an optical switch, permitting specific pulses to pass through while blocking others. As a result, the repetition rate of the OPT is manipulated. A proof-of-concept experiment is carried out. Frequency division factors of 2 and 3 are successfully achieved. The phase noises of the OPT before and after the frequency division are investigated. Compared to previously reported systems, no external microwave source and sophisticated synchronization structure are needed.
frequency division optoelectronic oscillator mode-locked laser microwave photonics Chinese Optics Letters
2024, 22(4): 043902
强激光与粒子束
2024, 36(4): 043009
复旦大学通信科学与工程系和电磁波信息科学教育部重点实验室,上海 200433
提出了一种基于光学外调制器倍频产生W波段线性调频(LFM)信号并用于高分辨率测距的新方案。通过光调制器将来自任意波形发生器(AWG)的LFM信号调制到光载波的边带上,利用光电探测器(PD)拍频完成光电转换,从而产生四倍频W波段LFM信号,其中心频率与带宽均为原始LFM信号的四倍。发射上述宽带LFM信号对相距为50 cm的2个目标分别测距,测量结果为48.8 cm,误差为1.2 cm。为进一步验证实验的可靠性,调整2个目标的距离为40 cm,测量结果为38.9 cm,误差为1.1 cm。该系统克服了难以直接在电域产生高频信号的“电子瓶颈”,通过光子辅助产生宽带LFM信号实现了高分辨率感知测距,为未来超高分辨率的线性调频连续波雷达系统提供了一种解决方案。
微波光子学 雷达测距 光子辅助倍频 线性调频连续波 W波段 激光与光电子学进展
2024, 61(9): 0906006
Author Affiliations
Abstract
1 54th Institute, China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, Shijiazhuang 050011, China
2 Hebei Key Laboratory of Photonic Information Technology and Application (PITA), Shijiazhuang 050011, China
3 Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
We propose and demonstrate an integrated microwave photonic sideband selector based on the thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) platform by integrating an electro-optic Mach–Zehnder modulator (MZM) and a thermo-optic tunable flat-top microring filter. The sideband selector has two functions: electro-optic modulation of wideband RF signal and sideband selection. The microwave photonic sideband selector supports processing RF signals up to 40 GHz, with undesired sidebands effectively suppressed by more than 25 dB. The demonstrated device shows great potential for TFLN integrated technology in microwave photonic applications, such as mixing and frequency measurement.
lithium niobate microwave photonics sideband selector Chinese Optics Letters
2024, 22(3): 031304
1 重庆邮电大学通信与信息工程学院,重庆 400065
2 重庆邮电大学智能通信与网络安全研究院,重庆 400065
本文针对宽带多载波微波光子链路(MPL)中产生的带内三阶交调失真(IMD3)和带外互调失真(XMD),给出了相应的非线性失真模型,然后基于失真模型中的XMD和IMD3信号与基频信号符号相反的特性来获取具有闭式解的代价函数,从而在快速自适应获取最优线性化系数的同时完成对XMD和IMD3的补偿。与现有的XMD和IMD3补偿方法相比,该方法无需系统和信号的先验参数,无需复杂的训练和迭代优化过程,实用性更好。仿真结果表明,在基于马赫-曾德尔调制器的MPL中传输多音信号时,链路中产生的XMD和IMD3分别被抑制了35 dB和29 dB以上;此外,当传输多载波正交频分复用信号时,信号的误差矢量幅值从8.1%优化到了2.2%。
微波光子学 数字线性化 三阶交调失真 互调失真 光学学报
2024, 44(12): 1207001
Author Affiliations
Abstract
Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Manipulation of the Ministry of Education & National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures & College of Engineering and Applied Sciences & Institute of Optical Communication Engineering & Nanjing University-Tongding Joint Lab for Large-Scale Photonic Integrated Circuits, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
We propose and experimentally demonstrate the programmable photonic radio frequency (RF) filters based on an integrated Fabry–Pérot laser with a saturable absorber (FP-SA). Owing to the high output power and the relative flatness spectrum of the FP-SA laser, only a waveshaper and an erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) were needed, which can greatly reduce the complexity of the system. The sinc filter employed 87 taps, representing a record-high tap number and resulting in a 3-dB bandwidth of 0.27 GHz and a quality factor of 148. Furthermore, Gaussian apodization enabled the out-of-band rejection of the filter to reach 34 dB and the center frequency to be finely tuned over a wide range, spanning from 4 to 14 GHz. These results indicate that the proposed scheme could provide a promising guideline for the photonic RF filters that demand both high reconfigurability and greatly reduced size and complexity.
microwave filters microwave photonics passively mode-locked laser Chinese Optics Letters
2024, 22(2): 023901
1 北京控制与电子技术研究所,北京 102300
2 哈尔滨工业大学可调谐激光技术国家级重点实验室,黑龙江 哈尔滨 150001
3 哈尔滨工业大学郑州研究院,河南 郑州 450000
微波光子学频率测量技术利用光学结构和技术产生、操纵、传输和测量高速微波射频信号,将光子学的高带宽、高复用、低损耗与微波技术的高精细、灵活性和易调控等优势相融合,能够大幅提升现有动态频谱监测系统的性能,在电磁空间安全防护、雷达、高速通信等领域具有显著的优势和应用前景。本文概述了微波光子学频率测量技术的研究进展,对比了包括频谱分析型、功率映射型和信道型等3种微波光子学频率测量技术的测频速度、测频精度等关键指标,并论述了基于光学啁啾链瞬态受激布里渊散射效应的微波光子频率测量技术研究工作。
微波光子学 超快微波频率测量 频谱分析 功率频率映射 信道 光学啁啾链 激光与光电子学进展
2024, 61(1): 0112003
1 华东师范大学物理与电子科学学院,上海 200241
2 中国科学院上海光学精密机械研究所强场激光物理国家重点实验室,上海 201800
近年来,薄膜铌酸锂光子集成技术发展极为迅速,其背后有着深刻的物理、材料、技术原因。单晶薄膜铌酸锂为解决光子集成芯片领域长期存在的低传输损耗、高密度集成以及低调制功耗需求提供了至今为止综合性能最优的解决方案。面向未来的新一代高速光电器件与超大规模光子集成芯片应用,本文回顾了薄膜铌酸锂光子技术的起源及其近期的快速发展,讨论了若干薄膜铌酸锂光子结构的加工技术,并展示了一系列当前性能最优的薄膜铌酸锂光子集成器件与系统,包括超低损耗可调光波导延时线、超高速光调制器、高效率量子光源,以及高功率片上放大器与片上激光器。这些器件以其体积小、质量轻、功耗低、性能好的综合优势,将对整个光电子产业产生难以估量的影响。
光子集成 光波导 光调制器 微波光子学 光量子集成器件 薄膜 薄膜铌酸锂
Author Affiliations
Abstract
1 Shanghai Key Laboratory of Multidimensional Information Processing, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
2 Engineering Center of SHMEC for Space Information and GNSS, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
A sub-Nyquist radar receiver based on photonics-assisted compressed sensing is proposed. Cascaded dictionaries are applied to extract the delay and the Doppler frequency of the echo signals, which do not need to accumulate multiple echo periods and can achieve better Doppler accuracy. An experiment is performed. Radar echoes with different delays and Doppler frequencies are undersampled and successfully reconstructed to obtain the delay and Doppler information of the targets. Experimental results show that the average reconstruction error of the Doppler frequency is 5.33 kHz using an 8-μs radar signal under the compression ratio of 5. The proposed method provides a promising solution for the sub-Nyquist radar receiver.
compressed sensing dictionary learning sub-Nyquist radar microwave photonics Doppler frequency Chinese Optics Letters
2024, 22(1): 013902
光子学报
2023, 52(12): 1206001