Microwave Photonic Harmonic Down-Conversion Based on Cascaded Four-Wave Mixing in a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier
A reconfigurable and wideband photonic method is proposed for microwave photonic harmonic down-conversion based on cascaded four-wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). The cascaded four-wave mixing in SOA triggers high-order harmonics generation of local oscillator (LO) in the optic...
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| description | A reconfigurable and wideband photonic method is proposed for microwave photonic harmonic down-conversion based on cascaded four-wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). The cascaded four-wave mixing in SOA triggers high-order harmonics generation of local oscillator (LO) in the optical domain, and enables microwave down-conversion in the electrical domain with a low-frequency electrical LO. Compared with the conventional photonic method, ours allows microwave down-conversion operation for wide frequency range RF signal with a low-frequency electrical LO, and at the same time it avoids the requirement of complex phase control and heavy driving for the electrical LO. Moreover, it enables reconfigurable down-conversion with frequency tunability. In the demonstration, the 3∼40 GHz RF signals are experimentally down-converted to IF signals below 2 GHz with a low-frequency electrical LO within the range of 5 GHz. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-73e717e6b42e41a09a36628280b23cd02025-08-20T03:14:52ZengIEEEIEEE Photonics Journal1943-06552018-01-011011810.1109/JPHOT.2017.27854098254343Microwave Photonic Harmonic Down-Conversion Based on Cascaded Four-Wave Mixing in a Semiconductor Optical AmplifierXinhai Zou0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9755-7010Shangjian Zhang1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9131-4002Heng Wang2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1928-3069Zhiyao Zhang3Jinjin Li4https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4661-4051Yali Zhang5Shuang Liu6Yong Liu7Collaboration Innovation Center of Electronic Materials and Devices, State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, ChinaCollaboration Innovation Center of Electronic Materials and Devices, State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, ChinaCollaboration Innovation Center of Electronic Materials and Devices, State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, ChinaCollaboration Innovation Center of Electronic Materials and Devices, State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, ChinaKey Laboratory for Thin Film and Microfabrication of Ministry of Education, Department of Micro/Nano-electronics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, ChinaCollaboration Innovation Center of Electronic Materials and Devices, State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, ChinaCollaboration Innovation Center of Electronic Materials and Devices, State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, ChinaCollaboration Innovation Center of Electronic Materials and Devices, State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, ChinaA reconfigurable and wideband photonic method is proposed for microwave photonic harmonic down-conversion based on cascaded four-wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). The cascaded four-wave mixing in SOA triggers high-order harmonics generation of local oscillator (LO) in the optical domain, and enables microwave down-conversion in the electrical domain with a low-frequency electrical LO. Compared with the conventional photonic method, ours allows microwave down-conversion operation for wide frequency range RF signal with a low-frequency electrical LO, and at the same time it avoids the requirement of complex phase control and heavy driving for the electrical LO. Moreover, it enables reconfigurable down-conversion with frequency tunability. In the demonstration, the 3∼40 GHz RF signals are experimentally down-converted to IF signals below 2 GHz with a low-frequency electrical LO within the range of 5 GHz.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8254343/Microwave photonicsmicrowave harmonic down-conversioncascaded four-wave mixingoptical harmonics intensificationsemiconductor optical amplifier |
| spellingShingle | Xinhai Zou Shangjian Zhang Heng Wang Zhiyao Zhang Jinjin Li Yali Zhang Shuang Liu Yong Liu Microwave Photonic Harmonic Down-Conversion Based on Cascaded Four-Wave Mixing in a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier IEEE Photonics Journal Microwave photonics microwave harmonic down-conversion cascaded four-wave mixing optical harmonics intensification semiconductor optical amplifier |
| title | Microwave Photonic Harmonic Down-Conversion Based on Cascaded Four-Wave Mixing in a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier |
| title_full | Microwave Photonic Harmonic Down-Conversion Based on Cascaded Four-Wave Mixing in a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier |
| title_fullStr | Microwave Photonic Harmonic Down-Conversion Based on Cascaded Four-Wave Mixing in a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier |
| title_full_unstemmed | Microwave Photonic Harmonic Down-Conversion Based on Cascaded Four-Wave Mixing in a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier |
| title_short | Microwave Photonic Harmonic Down-Conversion Based on Cascaded Four-Wave Mixing in a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier |
| title_sort | microwave photonic harmonic down conversion based on cascaded four wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier |
| topic | Microwave photonics microwave harmonic down-conversion cascaded four-wave mixing optical harmonics intensification semiconductor optical amplifier |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8254343/ |
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