Method And Apparatus Of Microwave Photonics Signal Processing

摘要

A radiofrequency (rf) signal-processing device offers the possibility of high bandwidth operation. The disclosed device applies principles of microwave photonics and Linear Amplification based on Nonlinear Components (LINC). For some applications, the device may be embodied in an rf amplifier or rf transmitter. In an embodiment, an optical phase modulator is configured to receive an optical carrier signal as input, and further configured so that, when driven by an rf modulation signal, it will produce a complementary pair of optical signals as output. Each of a pair of detectors is configured to convert a respective one of the complementary optical signals to an rf signal. An rf combiner is configured to add the converted radiofrequency signals from the detectors to form an output signal.