Abstract

Ultrafast measurement ofbroadband radio frequency (RF) spectrum is of great importance in dispersion compensation, signal impairment monitoring and coherence analysis. As an all-optical RF spectrum measuring system, the frequency-domain light intensity spectrum analyzer (f-LISA) maps the RF information into the time domain and realizes the single-shot RF spectrum acquisition. In order to further improve the performance of f-LISA, we investigate theoretically the relationship of resolution and bandwidth with the factors including the spectral width of the probe, the front and output 3^rd-order dispersion (TOD). Under the theoretical guidance, 1 nm spectral width of the probe is filtered out to reduce the impact of the front TOD, and the optical phase conjugation is adopted to decrease the output TOD which has a greater impact on f-LISA. The optimized f-LISA achieves the frame rate of 20.6 MHz, the resolution of 1 GHz and the bandwidth of 2.2 THz which is 3 times wider than the original f-LISA, demonstrating better measurement stability and accuracy. Furthermore, the high-speed and broadband RF spectrum analyzer is promising to provide a solution for ultrafast dynamical RF spectrum scenario like terahertz measurement.

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