Abstract

A microwave photonic scheme for multi-functional radio over fiber based in-band full duplex communication links to realize deep self-interference cancellation, long range transmission, and efficient signal recovery is proposed. In the proposed scheme, double sideband modulation helps avoid applying electrical couplers or optical filters and is beneficial to improve the frequency conversion efficiency. By virtue of the intermediate frequency signal amplitude regulation mechanism induced by fiber dispersion, the conditions of dispersion induced power fading compensation, amplitude matching, and phase reversion between self-interference and reference signals can be satisfied through joint DC bias tuning. The high precision delay matching in the optical domain is advantageous to the deep self-interference cancellation performance in a wide frequency range compared to its electrical counterparts. Furthermore, the deterioration of signal quality and self-interference cancellation performance caused by fiber dispersion is avoided. Experimental analyses show that a single tone signal in a wide frequency range of 2–20 GHz can be cancelled over 60 dB. A broadband signal with bandwidth of 50 MHz in the C-band, X-band, and K-band can be cancelled over 35 dB. Furthermore, the recovery performance of the signal of interest with different modulation formats and different signal to interference ratios is investigated, showing high quality signal transmission and efficient signal recovery. The capability of dispersion induced power fading compensation is also verified, and the spurious-free dynamic range is measured to be ${88.47}\;{\rm{dB\cdot H}}{{\rm{z}}^{2/3}}$.

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