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Noise performance of phase-insensitive multicasting in multi-stage parametric mixers
Christopher K Huynh1, Zhi Tong, Evgeny Myslivets
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA. christopher.huynh@navy.mil
Abstract:
Noise properties of large-count spectral multicasting in a phase-insensitive parametric mixer were investigated. Scalable multicasting was achieved using two-tone continuous-wave seeded mixers capable of generating more than 20 frequency non-degenerate copies. The mixer was constructed using a multistage architecture to simultaneously manage high Figure-of-Merit frequency generation and suppress noise generation. The performance was characterized by measuring the conversion efficiency and noise figure of all signal copies. Minimum noise figure of 8.09dB was measured. Experimental findings confirm that noise of the multicasted signal does not grow linearly with copy count and that it can be suppressed below this limit.
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