Infrared and Laser Engineering, Volume. 50, Issue 7, 20211056(2021)

Chip-based microwave photonic frequency mixer (Invited)

Simin Li... Rong Cong, Xiaoxiao Yao, Jing Feng, Zhenzhou Tang and Shilong Pan |Show fewer author(s)
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  • Key Laboratory of Radar Imaging and Microwave Photonics, Ministry of Education, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 211016, China
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    A microwave photonic frequency mixer constituted of an optically-carried local oscillator (LO) and a wavelength-division modulator was proposed. The wavelength-division modulator chip, which was consisted of a silicon phase modulator, two micro-ring filters, a photodetector, two optical couplers, and two grating couplers, was designed and fabricated. Based on the chip, a microwave photonic harmonic frequency mixer was implemented. In the experiment, an optically-carried LO was generated by double-sideband suppressed-carrier modulation at a Mach-Zehnder modulator. An RF signal from 6 to 16 GHz was successfully converted into a signal with a frequency of 33 to 23 GHz. In order to suppress the remaining mixing spurs, two solutions, i.e., increasing the rejection ratio of the micro-ring filter to decrease the intensity of the leaked optically-carried LO and introducing an optical phase shifter to correct the phase of the leaked optically-carried LO, were proposed and verified by simulation. It should be noted that the latter is simpler and more suitable for photonic integration.

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    Simin Li, Rong Cong, Xiaoxiao Yao, Jing Feng, Zhenzhou Tang, Shilong Pan. Chip-based microwave photonic frequency mixer (Invited)[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2021, 50(7): 20211056

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    Category: Special issue on microwave photonics $ Research articles

    Received: May. 10, 2021

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Aug. 23, 2021

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    DOI:10.3788/IRLA20211056

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