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Special Topics in Optical Engineering II (15/1) Yoojin Ban

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Introduction Optical Generation of Microwave Signals All-Optical Microwave Signal Processing Photonic True-Time Delay Beamforming Radio-Over-Fiber Systems


Introduction

• Broadband and low loss capability of photonics

• Generation, processing, control and distribution of microwave and millimeter-wave signals

• For broadband wireless access networks, sensor networks, radar, satellite communitarians, instrumentation and warfare systems


Optical Generation of Microwave Signals

• Low phase noise & frequency-tunable microwave or mm-wave source

• Radar, wireless communications, software defined radio, and modern instrumentation.

• Optical mixing of two waves



A. Optical Injection Locking

• Master laser (directly) and two slave laser• +2nd order & -2nd order side bands



B. Optical Phase Lock Loop

• Laser actively locked to another laser



C. Optical Injection Phase Locking

• Combination of optical injection locking & optical phase locking to improve signal quality



D. Microwave Generation Based on External Modulation

• Intensity modulator-based approach• Suppressing the optical carrier after modulation• Using Mach-Zehnder modulator & wavelength-fixed optical filter



D. Microwave Generation Based on External Modulation

• Phase-modulator-based approach• No bias-drifting problem (no DC bias)



E. Microwave Generation Using a Dual-Wavelength Laser

• Dual-wavelength single-longitudinal-mode fiber ring laser• Coherent with same gain medium


All-Optical Microwave Signal Processing

• Optical fibers as delay lines for signal processing • Generic photonic microwave delay-line filter with finite impulse

response• Incoherent regime• Positive coefficient tabs: problem



A. Photonic Microwave Delay-Line Filters With Negative Coefficient

• Photonic microwave delay-line filter with a negative coefficient using differential detection




• Photonic microwave delay-line filter with a negative coefficient based on cross-gain modulation in an SOA




• Photonic microwave delay-line filter with a negative coefficient based on injection-locking of an FP laser diode




• Photonic microwave delay-line filter with a negative coefficient based on carrier depletion effect in a DFB laser diode




• Photonic microwave delay-line filter with a negative coefficient based on phase inversion using complementarily biased intensity modulators




• RF phase inversion based on PM-IM conversion through opposite dispersion

• Photonic microwave delay-line filter with a negative coefficient based on PM-IM conversion in two LCFBGs with opposite dispersion



A. Photonic Microwave Delay-Line Filters With Complex Coefficient

• Two-tap photonic microwave filter with a complex coefficient uisngthree optical attenuators and two microwave couplers


Photonic True-Time Delay Beamforming

• Beam steering using phase shifter or delay line



• Photonic true-time delay beamforming system based on a FBG prism



• Photonic true-time delay beamforming system using a chirped Bragg grating


Radio-Over-Fiber Systems

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