Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Ultra high-speed photonics based radio frequency switching
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Application No.: US15553705Application Date: 2016-02-26
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Publication No.: US10587938B2Publication Date: 2020-03-10
- Inventor: Mable P. Fok , Jia Ge
- Applicant: University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US GA Athens
- Assignee: University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.
- Current Assignee: University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US GA Athens
- Agency: Thomas Horstemeyer, LLP
- International Application: PCT/US2016/019770 WO 20160226
- International Announcement: WO2016/138379 WO 20160901
- Main IPC: H04Q11/00
- IPC: H04Q11/00 ; G02B6/293 ; H04B10/294

Abstract:
Various examples are provided for radio frequency (RF) switching. In one example, a RF switch includes a dual-drive Mach-Zehnder modulator (DDMZM) that can generate a single-sideband (SSB) signal by modulating an input RF signal onto an optical carrier; a tunable phase modulator incorporated loop mirror filter (PM-LMF) that can optically notch filter the SSB signal in response to a control signal; and a photodetector (PD) that can generate a RF output signal based upon the SSB signal. In another example, a method includes modulating an input RF signal onto an optical carrier to generate a SSB signal; notch filtering the SSB signal by a tunable PM-LMF in response to a control signal; and generating a RF output signal based upon the SSB signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180027314A1 ULTRA HIGH-SPEED PHOTONICS BASED RADIO FREQUENCY SWITCHING Public/Granted day:2018-01-25
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