Abstract
A microwave photonics instantaneous frequency measurement receiver was conceived and practically demonstrated. The system is based on phase modulation inside a Sagnac loop and therefore needs no bias voltage, resulting in no DC bias drifts. The system provides a DC output whose amplitude is a function of input signal frequency, and thus no high-frequency photo-detector is required. Furthermore, the system exhibits a very good sensitivity without the aid of any sort of electrical noise cancellation techniques, such as lock-in amplification. This makes the system response faster, which would be another benefit for electronic warfare applications. Less than 6% measurement error was achieved over a 0.01–40 GHz frequency range for RF level. Also, a 10% error was achieved at RF power level.
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Hossein Emami, Mohammadreza Hajihashemi, Sayed Ehsan Alavi, Abu Sahmah Mohd Supaat, and Lam Bui, "Microwave photonics instantaneous frequency measurement receiver based on a Sagnac Loop: publisher’s note," Opt. Lett. 44, 1124-1124 (2019)https://opg.optica.org/ol/abstract.cfm?uri=ol-44-5-1124
7 February 2019: A typographical correction was made to the author listing and the author affiliations.
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