Photonic Generation of Multilevel Frequency-Hopping Microwave Signal

Xia Feng; Lianshan Yan; Hengyun Jiang; Peng Li; Jia Ye; Yin Zhou; Wei Pan; Bin Luo; Xihua Zou; Tao Zhou

doi:10.1109/JPHOT.2018.2885943

IEEE Photonics Journal (Jan 2019)

Photonic Generation of Multilevel Frequency-Hopping Microwave Signal

Xia Feng,
Lianshan Yan,
Hengyun Jiang,
Peng Li,
Jia Ye,
Yin Zhou,
Wei Pan,
Bin Luo,
Xihua Zou,
Tao Zhou

Affiliations

Xia Feng: ORCiD; Center for Information Photonics and Communications, School of Information Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
Lianshan Yan: ORCiD; Center for Information Photonics and Communications, School of Information Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
Hengyun Jiang: Center for Information Photonics and Communications, School of Information Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
Peng Li: ORCiD; Center for Information Photonics and Communications, School of Information Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
Jia Ye: Center for Information Photonics and Communications, School of Information Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
Yin Zhou: Center for Information Photonics and Communications, School of Information Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
Wei Pan: Center for Information Photonics and Communications, School of Information Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
Bin Luo: Center for Information Photonics and Communications, School of Information Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
Xihua Zou: ORCiD; Center for Information Photonics and Communications, School of Information Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
Tao Zhou: Key Laboratory of Electronic Information Control, Southwest China Research Institute of Electronic Equipment, Chengdu, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOT.2018.2885943
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

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A photonic scheme to generate a 4-level frequency hopping (FH) microwave signal is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The frequency of the generated signal can be fast and flexibly switched by shifting the combinations of two binary signals (i.e., 00, 01, 11, 10). Moreover, the carrier frequencies of the signal can be tuned in a large range. In the experiments, 2/4/6/12, 4/6/8/12, and 6/9/12/18 GHz FH signals are generated with the FH speed up to gigahertz.

Published in IEEE Photonics Journal

ISSN: 1943-0655 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General): Applied optics. Photonics; Science: Physics: Optics. Light
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