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Electro-optical radiofrequency mixer based on semiconductor optical amplifier

Electro-optical radiofrequency mixer based on semiconductor optical amplifier

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Presented is an electro-optical radiofrequency mixer based on a semiconductor optical amplifier directly modulated by an electrical local oscillator in the presence of an optical RF signal. A good conversion gain of about 5.7 dB and a low error vector magnitude below 3.8% were obtained for this mixer, proving its ability to achieve a frequency downconversion from 2.4 GHz to 100 MHz for an optical complex-modulated RF signal: QPSK, 16QAM and 64QAM.

Inspec keywords: mixers (circuits); electro-optical devices; quadrature phase shift keying; quadrature amplitude modulation; optical frequency conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers

Other keywords: frequency 2.4 GHz; frequency 100 MHz; quadrature phase shift keying; conversion gain; electro-optical radiofrequency mixer; electrical local oscillator; frequency downconversion; semiconductor optical amplifier; quadrature amplitude modulation

Subjects: Modulators, demodulators, discriminators and mixers; Optical harmonic generation, frequency conversion, parametric oscillation and amplification; Electro-optical devices; Semiconductor lasers

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