• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 19, Issue 1, 013901 (2021)
Yuewen Zhou, Fangzheng Zhang*, and Shilong Pan
Author Affiliations
  • Key Laboratory of Radar Imaging and Microwave Photonics, Ministry of Education, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL202119.013901 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Yuewen Zhou, Fangzheng Zhang, Shilong Pan. Instantaneous frequency analysis of broadband LFM signals by photonics-assisted equivalent frequency sampling[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2021, 19(1): 013901 Copy Citation Text show less
    (a) Schematic diagram of the photonic-scanning-receiver-based microwave photonic frequency measurement system and (b) principle of the EFS.
    Fig. 1. (a) Schematic diagram of the photonic-scanning-receiver-based microwave photonic frequency measurement system and (b) principle of the EFS.
    (a) Optical spectra of the signal after MZM1 and the signal after ODBF and (b) optical spectra of the signal after MZM2 and the signal after OBPF.
    Fig. 2. (a) Optical spectra of the signal after MZM1 and the signal after ODBF and (b) optical spectra of the signal after MZM2 and the signal after OBPF.
    Sampled waveform of the envelope signal when the SUT is a single-frequency signal at 31 GHz.
    Fig. 3. Sampled waveform of the envelope signal when the SUT is a single-frequency signal at 31 GHz.
    (a) Sampled waveforms in four periods when measuring the LFM-SUT from 30 GHz to 33 GHz and (b) the measurement results obtained by the proposed method.
    Fig. 4. (a) Sampled waveforms in four periods when measuring the LFM-SUT from 30 GHz to 33 GHz and (b) the measurement results obtained by the proposed method.
    Measurement results when the temporal period of the LFM-SUT is (a) 9.75 μs and (b) 9.9 μs.
    Fig. 5. Measurement results when the temporal period of the LFM-SUT is (a) 9.75μs and (b) 9.9μs.
    Measurement results of the pulsed LFM-SUT with a negative chirp rate.
    Fig. 6. Measurement results of the pulsed LFM-SUT with a negative chirp rate.
    Yuewen Zhou, Fangzheng Zhang, Shilong Pan. Instantaneous frequency analysis of broadband LFM signals by photonics-assisted equivalent frequency sampling[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2021, 19(1): 013901
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