Microwave photonic mixer with suppression of mixing spurs

Author

Zhenzhou Tang ; Shilong Pan

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Radar Imaging & Microwave Photonics, Nanjing Univ. of Aeronaut. & Astronaut., Nanjing, China

fYear

2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Microwave photonic mixer has attracted a significant interest in a lot of applications such as radio over fiber system, satellite payload and radar system, thanks to the advantages in terms of low loss, high isolation and immunity to electromagnetic interference as compared with the conventional electronic mixer. However, the mixing spurs, which is an inevitable problem for any frequency mixer, is difficult to solve for the microwave photonic mixer. In this paper, microwave photonic mixers based on carrier-suppressed double sideband (CS-DSB) modulation and carrier-suppressed SSB (CS-SSB) modulation are present to suppress the mixing spurs.

Keywords

microwave mixers; microwave photonics; modulation; CS-DSB modulation; carrier suppressed double sideband; carrier-suppressed SSB; electromagnetic interference; electronic mixer; microwave photonic mixer; mixing spurs suppression; radar system; radio over fiber system; satellite payload; Amplitude modulation; Microwave amplifiers; Microwave oscillators; Microwave photonics; Mixers; Radio frequency; Frequency mixer; microwave photonics; mixing spurs;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN), 2015 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICOCN.2015.7203697

Filename

7203697