Image reject mixer with greatly improved rejection ratio based on the balanced Hartley architecture

Wenjuan Chen,Dan Zhu,Chenxu Xie,Shilong Pan

doi:10.1109/ieee-iws.2019.8804035

Image reject mixer with greatly improved rejection ratio based on the balanced Hartley architecture

Wenjuan Chen, Dan Zhu + Show 2 more

https://doi.org/10.1109/ieee-iws.2019.8804035

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Publication Date: May 1, 2019

Citations: 5

Affiliation: Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

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A microwave photonic image-reject mixer (IRM) achieving a recorded image rejection ratio (IRR) based on balanced Hartley architecture and an optical pre-filter is proposed and demonstrated. A theoretical model is established to study the influence of the power imbalance and the phase inaccuracy in the balanced Hartley architecture on the IRR. With the assistance of an optical pre-filter, a high IRR can be obtained with moderate amplitude and phase consistencies for the balanced Hartley architecture. A proof-of-concept experiment is carried out. The IRR larger than 90 dB is successfully realized for RF frequencies tuning from 10 to 40 GHz.

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