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Anti-dispersion phase-tunable microwave mixer based on a dual-drive dual-parallel Mach-Zehnder modulator
Abstract:
An optically-controlled phase-tunable microwave mixer based on a dual-drive dual-parallel Mach-Zehnder modulator (DDDP-MZM) is proposed, which supports wideband phase shift and immunity to power fading caused by chromatic dispersion. By using carrier-suppressed single side-band (CS-SSB) modulation for the local oscillator (LO) signal and carrier-suppressed double side-band (CS-DSB) modulation for the input signal, no vector superposition for the same output microwave frequency occurs, making the system immune from power fading caused by chromatic dispersion. Phase tuning is achieved by shifting the phase of the LO signal, and direct electrical tuning of the wideband microwave input signal is avoided, thus supporting large working bandwidth. A phase-shifted down-conversion experiment is carried out, where a phase shift with 0 ~390° and down-conversion are achieved with a phase variation of less than 5° and power variation less than 3.5 dBm when the input signal sweeps between 12 ~16 GHz. The mixer is simple and power-efficient since it uses a single compact modulator, and does not require any optical filters. No power notches are observed in the output microwave spectrum, proving that the dispersion-related frequency-selective fading is mitigated.
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