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: Received: 23 March 2020 / Approved: 26 March 2020 / Online: 26 March 2020 (02:19:45 CET)
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Xu, X.; tan, M.; Wu, J.; Boes, A.; Nguyen, T.G.; Chu, S.T.; Little, B.E.; Morandotti, R.; Mitchell, A.; Moss, D.J. Photonic Radio Frequency and Microwave Channelizer with 90 Channels Based on a Kerr Microcomb. Preprints2020, 2020030380
Xu, X.; tan, M.; Wu, J.; Boes, A.; Nguyen, T.G.; Chu, S.T.; Little, B.E.; Morandotti, R.; Mitchell, A.; Moss, D.J. Photonic Radio Frequency and Microwave Channelizer with 90 Channels Based on a Kerr Microcomb. Preprints 2020, 2020030380
Xu, X.; tan, M.; Wu, J.; Boes, A.; Nguyen, T.G.; Chu, S.T.; Little, B.E.; Morandotti, R.; Mitchell, A.; Moss, D.J. Photonic Radio Frequency and Microwave Channelizer with 90 Channels Based on a Kerr Microcomb. Preprints2020, 2020030380
APA Style
Xu, X., tan, M., Wu, J., Boes, A., Nguyen, T.G., Chu, S.T., Little, B.E., Morandotti, R., Mitchell, A., & Moss, D.J. (2020). Photonic Radio Frequency and Microwave Channelizer with 90 Channels Based on a Kerr Microcomb. Preprints. https://doi.org/
Chicago/Turabian Style
Xu, X., Arnan Mitchell and David J. Moss. 2020 "Photonic Radio Frequency and Microwave Channelizer with 90 Channels Based on a Kerr Microcomb" Preprints. https://doi.org/
Abstract
We report a broadband radio frequency (RF) channelizer with up to 92 channels using a coherent microcomb source. A soliton crystal microcomb, generated by a 49 GHz micro-ring resonator (MRR), is used as a multi-wavelength source. Due to its ultra-low comb spacing, up to 92 wavelengths are available in the C band, yielding a broad operation bandwidth. Another high-Q MRR is employed as a passive optical periodic filter to slice the RF spectrum with a high resolution of 121.4 MHz. We experimentally achieve an instantaneous RF operation bandwidth of 8.08 GHz and verify RF channelization up to 17.55 GHz via thermal tuning. Our approach is a significant step towards the monolithically integrated photonic RF receivers with reduced complexity, size, and unprecedented performance, which is important for wide RF applications ranging from broadband analog signal processing to digital-compatible signal detection.
Keywords
microwave photonic; signal channelization; integrated optical frequency comb
Subject
Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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