基于微波光子扫频的超快光学矢量分析研究

Research on Ultra-Fast Optical Vector Analysis Based on Microwave Photonic Frequency Sweeping

  • 摘要: 该文提出并验证了一种基于微波光子扫频的超快、高精度光学矢量分析技术方案。使用双臂驱动马赫−曾德尔电光调制器的一个射频端口加载线性调频信号,产生宽带光学线性扫频信号,实现待测器件频响特性的快速扫描。调制器的另一个射频端口加载单音本振微波信号,实现扫频信号的下变频,进而通过模数转换器实现低频数字化探测。然后利用希尔伯特变换进行信号处理后,获得待测器件的幅频和相频响应。最后实验测试了一段长度3 km的非零色散位移光纤中的布里渊增益幅频和相频响应,测量时间仅需20 μs,频率分辨率可达20 kHz。

     

    Abstract: An ultra-fast and high-resolution optical vector analysis scheme has been proposed and experimentally demonstrated. In the scheme, a broadband optical frequency-sweeping signal is generated by injecting a linearly frequency-modulated signal into one radio-frequency (RF) port of a dual-drive Mach-Zehnder electro-optic modulator, which is used to achieve fast scanning of the frequency response characteristic of the device under test (DUT). A single-tone microwave signal is injected into the other RF port of the modulator to realize down-conversion of the frequency-sweeping signal. The down-converted signal is then digitized by an analog-to-digital converter, and is processed through Hilbert transform to extract the amplitude- and phase-frequency response of the DUT. In the proof-of-concept experiment, the amplitude- and phase-frequency response of the Brillouin gain in a section of non-zero dispersion shifted fiber with a length of 3 km is accurately measured, where the measurement time is only 20 μs, and the frequency resolution reaches 20 kHz.

     

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