Title :
Microwave frequency up-conversion based on simultaneous mixing and frequency selection
Author :
Xiaoke Yi ; Tong Chen ; Huang, Thomas X. H. ; Liwei Li
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Inf. Eng., Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Abstract :
A compact microwave frequency upconverter is presented, based on simultaneous mixing and bandpass filtering enabled by an electro-optical phase modulator and a tunable optical filter. Experimental results verify the technique with suppression of unwanted frequencies.
Keywords :
band-pass filters; microwave frequency convertors; optical communication equipment; optical filters; bandpass filtering; electro-optical phase modulator; frequency selection; microwave frequency upconversion; microwave frequency upconverter; mixing selection; tunable optical filter; Frequency modulation; Microwave amplifiers; Microwave communication; Microwave filters; Microwave photonics; Optical filters; microwave frequency converter; microwave photonic mixing; photonic signal processing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN), 2015 14th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nanjing
DOI :
10.1109/ICOCN.2015.7203696
