Photonics (Aug 2024)

Research on High-Frequency PGC-EKF Demodulation Technology Based on EOM for Nonlinear Distortion Suppression

  • Peng Wu,
  • Qun Li,
  • Jiabi Liang,
  • Jian Shao,
  • Yuncai Lu,
  • Yuandi Lin,
  • Tonglei Wang,
  • Xiaohan Li,
  • Zongling Zhao,
  • Chuanlu Deng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics11090801
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 9
p. 801

Abstract

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In this study, a phase-generated carrier (PGC) demodulation algorithm combined with the extended Kalman filter (EKF) algorithm based on an electro-optic modulator (EOM) is proposed, which can achieve nonlinear distortion (such as modulation depth drift and carrier phase delay) suppression for high-frequency phase carrier modulation. The improved algorithm is implemented on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) hardware platform. The experimental results by the PGC-EKF method show that total harmonic distortion (THD) decreases from −32.61 to −54.51 dB, and SINAD increases from 32.59 to 47.86 dB, compared to the traditional PGC-Arctan method. This indicates that the PGC-EKF demodulation algorithm proposed in this paper can be widely used in many important fields such as hydrophone, transformer, and ultrasound signal detection.

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