Wideband microwave phase noise measurement based on photonic-assisted I/Q mixing and digital phase demodulation
发布时间:2018-11-13 点击次数:
所属单位:电子信息工程学院
发表刊物:OPTICS EXPRESS
关键字:OSCILLATORS
摘要:A wideband microwave phase noise measurement system is proposed based on quadrature phase demodulation of the mixing components of a signal under test (SUT) and its delayed replica. The time delay is introduced by a low-loss optical fiber, which can be sufficiently large to achieve a high phase noise measurement sensitivity, and the quadrature phase demodulation is achieved by photonic-assisted in-phase and quadrate (I/Q) mixing together with digital signal processing. Thanks to the optoelectronic hybrid quadrature phase demodulation, the use of feedback loops, which are usually required in conventional photonic-delay-line-based phase noise measurement systems, is avoided, and the measurable frequency range is expanded. An experiment is implemented. Accurate phase noise measurement of SUTs in a frequency range of 5-35 GHz is demonstrated. With a 2-km single-mode fiber serving as the photonic delay line, the phase noise floor is as low as -131 dBc/Hz at the offset frequency of 10 kHz. The proposed scheme can be applied for evaluating the performance of microwave systems using low-phase-noise and wideband tunable microwave sources. (C) 2017 Optical Society of America
ISSN号:1094-4087
是否译文:否
发表时间:2017-09-18
合写作者:史经展,潘时龙
第一作者:张方正
通讯作者:张方正,潘时龙