• Infrared and Laser Engineering
  • Vol. 50, Issue 7, 20211056 (2021)
Simin Li, Rong Cong, Xiaoxiao Yao, Jing Feng, Zhenzhou Tang, and Shilong Pan
Author Affiliations
  • Key Laboratory of Radar Imaging and Microwave Photonics, Ministry of Education, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 211016, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/IRLA20211056 Cite this Article
    Simin Li, Rong Cong, Xiaoxiao Yao, Jing Feng, Zhenzhou Tang, Shilong Pan. Chip-based microwave photonic frequency mixer (Invited)[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2021, 50(7): 20211056 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    A microwave photonic frequency mixer constituted of an optically-carried local oscillator (LO) and a wavelength-division modulator was proposed. The wavelength-division modulator chip, which was consisted of a silicon phase modulator, two micro-ring filters, a photodetector, two optical couplers, and two grating couplers, was designed and fabricated. Based on the chip, a microwave photonic harmonic frequency mixer was implemented. In the experiment, an optically-carried LO was generated by double-sideband suppressed-carrier modulation at a Mach-Zehnder modulator. An RF signal from 6 to 16 GHz was successfully converted into a signal with a frequency of 33 to 23 GHz. In order to suppress the remaining mixing spurs, two solutions, i.e., increasing the rejection ratio of the micro-ring filter to decrease the intensity of the leaked optically-carried LO and introducing an optical phase shifter to correct the phase of the leaked optically-carried LO, were proposed and verified by simulation. It should be noted that the latter is simpler and more suitable for photonic integration.
    $\begin{array}{*{20}{l}} {{E_1}(t) = \exp ({\rm{j}}{\omega _1}t)}\\ {{E_2}(t) = \exp ({\rm{j}}{\omega _2}t)} \end{array} $(1)

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    $ \begin{split} {E_{{\rm{PM - out}}}}(t) =& {{{{J}}_0}(\gamma )\exp ({\rm{j}}{\omega _2}t)} + {{{J}}_1}(\gamma )\cdot\exp [{\rm{j}}({\omega _2}t +{\omega _{{\rm{RF}}}}t +\\ & \pi /2)]{ - {{{J}}_1}(\gamma )\exp [{\rm{j}}({\omega _2}t - {\omega _{{\rm{RF}}}}t - \pi /2)]} \end{split} $(2)

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    $ \begin{split} {E_{{\rm{PD - in}}}}(t) =& {\exp ({\rm{j}}{\omega _1}t){\rm{ + }}{{{J}}_0}(\gamma )\exp ({\rm{j}}{\omega _2}t)} + {{{J}}_1}(\gamma )\exp [{\rm{j}}({\omega _2}t + \\ & {\omega _{{\rm{RF}}}}t +\pi /2)]{ - {{{J}}_1}(\gamma )\exp [{\rm{j}}({\omega _2}t - {\omega _{{\rm{RF}}}}t - \pi /2)]} \end{split} $(3)

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    $ \begin{split} &s(t)\propto {E}_{\rm{PD-in}}(t)\cdot {E}_{\rm{PD-in}}^{*}(t)={{J}}_{0}(\gamma )\cos[({\omega }_{2}-{\omega }_{1})t]-{{J}}_{1}(\gamma )\cdot\\ &\sin[({\omega }_{2}-{\omega }_{1}+{\omega }_{\rm{RF}})t]-{{J}}_{1}(\gamma )\sin[({\omega }_{2}-{\omega }_{1}-{\omega }_{\rm{RF}})t+\\ &{{J}}_{1}^{2}(\gamma )\cos[2{\omega }_{\rm{RF}}t]={{J}}_{0}(\gamma )\cos({\omega }_{{\rm{LO}}{\text{光}}}t)-{\rm{J}}_{1}(\gamma )\sin[({\omega }_{{\rm{LO}}{\text{光}}}+\\ &{\omega }_{\rm{RF}})t]-{{J}}_{1}(\gamma )\sin[({\omega }_{{\rm{LO}}{\text{光}}}-{\omega }_{\rm{RF}})t+{{J}}_{1}^{2}(\gamma )\cos(2{\omega }_{\rm{RF}}t) \end{split} $(4)

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    Simin Li, Rong Cong, Xiaoxiao Yao, Jing Feng, Zhenzhou Tang, Shilong Pan. Chip-based microwave photonic frequency mixer (Invited)[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2021, 50(7): 20211056
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