Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 39, Issue 9, 0906005(2019)

Point-to-Multipoint Phase-Stabilized Microwave Signal Transmission in Optical Fiber Links Using Passive Phase Compensation

Yao Jiang, Xihua Zou*, Xianglei Yan, Bin Luo, Wei Pan, and Lianshan Yan
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  • Center for Information Photonics and Communications, School of Information Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, Sichuan 611756, China
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    Phase-stabilized microwave signal transmission has been widely used for radar, space observations, and satellite navigation. To address the problems of low transmission efficiency and slow speed of active compensation in a point-to-point phase-stabilized transmission scheme, herein, we propose a scheme for point-to-multipoint microwave signal transmission via optical fiber links using passive phase correction, which is required for achieving a large compensation range and multiple access points. At the local end, we use a power splitter to divide the microwave signal into two paths, which are used as the signal to be transmitted and detection signals after frequency division. The signal to be transmitted is mixed with the detection signal following a roundtrip transmission via the optical fiber to obtain a down-converted signal. The down-converted signal is then transmitted to the remote end through the same fiber link to be mixed with the forward detection signal for one-trip transmission. This generates a stabilized microwave signal, and the stable point-to-multipoint phase transmission is realized from a rational design of the structure. Experimental results show that the root mean square (RMS) timing jitter of a 2-GHz signal in this multi-link distributed structure is 0.968 ps across a 10-km fiber link, whereas the RMS timing jitter of a single-link distributed structure is 1.606 ps over an 11-km fiber link.

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    Yao Jiang, Xihua Zou, Xianglei Yan, Bin Luo, Wei Pan, Lianshan Yan. Point-to-Multipoint Phase-Stabilized Microwave Signal Transmission in Optical Fiber Links Using Passive Phase Compensation[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2019, 39(9): 0906005

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    Paper Information

    Category: Fiber Optics and Optical Communications

    Received: Apr. 1, 2019

    Accepted: May. 20, 2019

    Published Online: Sep. 9, 2019

    The Author Email: Zou Xihua (zouxihua@swjtu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS201939.0906005

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