Acta Photonica Sinica, Volume. 49, Issue 6, 0606001(2020)

A Photonic Microwave Phase-shifting System with Continuously Tunable Phase Shift and Frequency Multiplication Factor

Yi-shi HAN1,2, Bei-si ZHAO1、*, Wu-jin LUO1, Sheng-chao XIE1, and Ke-ke LEI1
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  • 1School of Information Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
  • 2China Communication Services Construction Corporation, Guangzhou 510095, China
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    A photonic microwave phase-shifting system with continuously tunable phase shift and the frequency multiplication factor is proposed. Without optical filters, the scheme is mainly consists of two integrated dual-polarization dual-parallel Mach-Zehnder modulators. By adjusting voltages of the radio frequency driving signal and direct current bias signal on the dual-parallel Mach-Zehnder modulators and phase modulator, frequency-doubling or frequency-tripling, ..., frequency-sextupling microwave signal can be generated, with 0° to 360℃ontinuously tunable phase shift. The simulation results show that, when the radio frequency signal frequency is 10 GHz, the output microwave signals with the frequency 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 GHz can be obtained respectively. The ratio of direct current bias voltage and half-wave voltage of the phase modulator is set to vary from 0 to 1, corresponding to phase shift of microwave signal vary from -180° to 180°. In addition, the effects of the extinction ratio of the modulators on the optical sideband suppression ratio and electrical spurious suppression ratio of the output microwave signal, as well as the effects of the phase balance of the 90° hybrid coupler on the phase drift and amplitude variation of the microwave signal are analyzed.

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    Yi-shi HAN, Bei-si ZHAO, Wu-jin LUO, Sheng-chao XIE, Ke-ke LEI. A Photonic Microwave Phase-shifting System with Continuously Tunable Phase Shift and Frequency Multiplication Factor[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2020, 49(6): 0606001

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    Paper Information

    Category: Fiber Optics and Optical Communications

    Received: Feb. 29, 2020

    Accepted: Mar. 30, 2020

    Published Online: Nov. 26, 2020

    The Author Email: ZHAO Bei-si (2453013784@qq.com)

    DOI:10.3788/gzxb20204906.0606001

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