Chinese Optics Letters, 2017, 15 (1): 010014, Published Online: Jul. 26, 2018
Full-band direct-conversion receiver with enhanced port isolation and I/Q phase balance using microwave photonic I/Q mixer (Invited Paper) Download: 947次
Abstract
A full-band direct-conversion receiver using a microwave photonic in-phase and quadrature (I/Q) mixer is proposed and experimentally evaluated in terms of radio frequency (RF) range, port isolation, phase imbalance, conversion gain, noise figure, spurious-free dynamic range, and error vector magnitude. The proposed microwave photonic I/Q mixer shows significant advantages in local oscillator leakage and I/Q phase imbalance over entire RF bands, which are recognized as major drawbacks of conventional direct-conversion receivers.
Jianqiang Li, Jia Xiao, Xiaoxiong Song, Yue Zheng, Chunjing Yin, Qiang Lv, Yuting Fan, Feifei Yin, Yitang Dai, Kun Xu. Full-band direct-conversion receiver with enhanced port isolation and I/Q phase balance using microwave photonic I/Q mixer (Invited Paper)[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2017, 15(1): 010014.