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    • Photonics
    • Microwave Engineering
    • Signal Processing

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    • Bandstop filters are crucial in microwave systems for signal interference suppression.
    • Traditional filters face limitations in achieving high extinction, wide stopbands, and tunability simultaneously.
    • Radio Frequency (RF) photonics offers a promising avenue for advanced filter implementation.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To demonstrate a novel RF photonic signal interference filter.
    • To achieve high performance metrics including extinction ratio, tunable bandwidth, and frequency range.
    • To leverage stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) for advanced filter characteristics.

    Main Methods:

    • Implementation of a signal interference filter concept using RF photonics.
    • Precise synthesis of stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) loss.
    • Advanced phase and amplitude tailoring of RF modulation sidebands.

    Main Results:

    • A square-shaped, 20-dB extinction RF photonic filter was demonstrated.
    • Achieved a tunable bandwidth of up to 1 GHz.
    • Obtained a central frequency tuning range of 16 GHz with low SBS loss (~3 dB).
    • Wideband destructive interference enabled decoupling of filter suppression from bandwidth and shape factor.

    Conclusions:

    • The developed RF photonic filter offers optimized qualities with high performance.
    • The approach enables reconfigurable and wide-tuning range microwave filtering.
    • This work paves the way for advanced signal processing in RF and microwave domains.