Adaptive linearized microwave downconversion utilizing a single dual-electrode Mach-Zehnder modulator

作者:Pan Yan; Yan Lianshan; Chen Zhiyu; Pan Wei; Luo Bin; Zou Xihua; Ye Jia; Yi Anlin
来源:Optics Letters, 2015, 40(11): 2649-2652.
DOI:10.1364/OL.40.002649

摘要

An adaptive postprocessing approach to improve the linearity of the down-converted analog photonic link has been proposed and experimentally demonstrated. With the inverse transformation for the detected signal, the third-order intermodulation distortion (IMD3) can be significantly suppressed when only the frequency and bandwidth of the signal are known. Experimental results show that the spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) of the link can reach similar to 126 dB . Hz(4/5) after the proposed compensation scheme.