Abstract

A microwave photonic channelization receiver is a promising technology for broadband radio frequency (RF) signal monitoring and reception. In this Letter, by exploiting acousto-optic frequency shifters (AOFSs), a microwave photonic channelization receiver is proposed. The proposed microwave photonic channelized receiver can reduce dual coherent optical frequency comb (OFC) generators with detuning frequency spacing into a single OFC generator. To verify the feasibility of the proposed channelization scheme, a broadband RF signal with 3.2 GHz bandwidth is channelized into eight narrowband RF signals with 0.4 GHz bandwidth. Moreover, we investigate the effect of the tuning error imposed by AOFSs, where the error vector magnitude (EVM) of subchannels is obtained by channelizing the four 16-quadrature amplitude modulation (16-QAM) signals into four subchannels.

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