Photonics Research, 2018, 6 (1): 01000012, Published Online: Jul. 19, 2018  

All-fiber-photonics-based ultralow-noise agile frequency synthesizer for X-band radars Download: 862次

Author Affiliations
1 School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, South Korea
2 Key Laboratory of Radar Imaging and Microwave Photonics, Ministry of Education, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Nanjing 210016, China
3 e-mail: pans@nuaa.edu.cn
Abstract
We propose and demonstrate an agile X-band signal synthesizer with ultralow phase noise based on all-fiber-photonic techniques for radar applications. It shows phase noise of ?145 dBc/Hz (?152 dBc/Hz) at 10 kHz (100 kHz) offset frequency for 10 GHz carrier frequency with integrated RMS timing jitter between 7.6 and 9.1 fs (integration bandwidth: 10 Hz–10 MHz) for frequencies from 9 to 11 GHz. Its frequency switching time is evaluated to be 135 ns with a 135 pHz frequency tuning resolution. In addition, the X-band linear-frequency-modulated signal generated by the proposed synthesizer shows a good pulse compression ratio approximating the theoretical value. In addition to the ultrastable X-band signals, the proposed synthesizer can also provide 0–1 GHz ultralow-jitter clocks for analog-to-digital converters (ADC) and digital-to-analog converters (DAC) in radar systems and ultralow-jitter optical pulse trains for photonic ADC in photonic radar systems. The proposed X-band synthesizer shows great performance in phase stability, switching speed, and modulation capability with robustness and potential low cost, which is enabled by an all-fiber-photonics platform and can be a compelling technology suitable for future X-band radars.

Juan Wei, Dohyeon Kwon, Shuangyou Zhang, Shilong Pan, Jungwon Kim. All-fiber-photonics-based ultralow-noise agile frequency synthesizer for X-band radars[J]. Photonics Research, 2018, 6(1): 01000012.

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