Title
Photonic instantaneous RF frequency measurement system based on complementary modulation
Abstract
A photonic instantaneous frequency measurement system based on complementary electro-optic modulation is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. A dual-electrode, dual-output Mach-Zehnder modulator is used to simultaneously achieve electro-optical modulation and complementary modulation sideband (MS) filtering. By suppressing the optical carrier at one of the modulator outputs, complementary MS filtering is mapped into two complementary average optical powers from which the RF frequency is derived. The obtained frequency measurement is independent of both optical and RF powers, and also robust to electrical circuitry imperfections.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/EUROCON.2011.5929413
EUROCON - International Conference Computer as a Tool
Keywords
Field
DocType
mach-zehnder interferometers,frequency measurement,optical variables measurement,radiofrequency measurement,ms filtering,complementary electrooptic modulation,complementary modulation sideband filtering,dual-output mach-zehnder modulator,electrical circuitry imperfection,electrooptical modulation,photonic instantaneous rf frequency measurement system,microwave photonics,complementary modulation,instantaneous microwave frequency measurement,modulation
Baseband,Frequency drift,RF probe,Radio frequency,Voltage-controlled oscillator,Electronic engineering,Frequency synthesizer,Frequency multiplier,Frequency modulation,Materials science,Optoelectronics
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
8001
0277-786X
978-1-4244-7486-8
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
miguel v drummond111.37
Carlos A. F. Marques200.34
Paulo P. Monteiro315629.69
Rogério N. Nogueira4148.62