Design of an MMIC Transversal Filter in MM-Wave Bands

A novel MMIC transversal filter structure using multiple-coupled-line directional couplers and its design method are proposed. There is a critical drawback in fabricating MMIC transversal filters because the length of the conventional transversal filter is much longer than the width. In order to solve this structural problem, a novel transversal filter which can easily be realized in MMIC type is proposed. The usefulness of the proposed transversal filter for MMIC applications is verified by the 3D full-wave analysis. The analysis results show the characteristics of low insertion loss, improved selectivity, and little bandwidth shrinkage.     

混沌通信系统中非线性信道的自适应组合神经网络均衡

针对混沌通信系统的非线性信道干扰问题,基于混沌信号重构理论和函数型连接神经网络理论,提出了一种横向滤波器与函数型连接神经网络组合(combination of transversal filter and functional link neural network,CFFLNN)的自适应非线性信道均衡器,并给出基于低复杂度归一化最小均方(NLMS)的自适应算法,并对该均衡器的稳定性以及收敛条件进行了分析.该非线性自适应均衡器充分利用了横向滤波器的快速收敛,以及函数型连接神经网络通过增大输入空间提高非线性逼近能力的特点,进一步提高均衡器的收敛速度和降低稳态误差.仿真研究表明：所提出的非线性自适应均衡器能够有效地消除线性和非线性信道干扰,均衡器输出信号能反映出混沌信号的特性,具有良好的抗干扰性能;且该均衡器的结构简单,收敛稳定性较好,易于工程实现. 关键词： 非线性信道 自适应均衡器 混沌吸引子 神经网络     

Predistortion techniques for synthesizing coupled microring filters with loss

A general method based on the predistortion technique is presented for determining the optimum coupling parameters of multiple-coupled microring filters in the presence of known uniform resonator loss. The technique involves predistorting the filter transfer function by shifting its poles and zeros to compensate for loss in the microring resonators due to material absorption, surface roughness scattering, coupling loss and bending loss. It is shown that by sacrificing some in-band insertion loss, both the amplitude and group delay responses of the filter can be recovered when loss is present. Application of the method to synthesizing lossy microring filters in both the digital z-domain and analog s-domain will be presented. The proposed technique is general in that it can be applied to both amplitude and phase filters constructed of coupled microresonators in the most general two-dimensional coupling topology.     

双模式高精度可调超分辨光瞳滤波器

基于双折射波片的特性,提出了一种具有双调节模式的连续可调超分辨光瞳滤波器。该滤波器通过两种调节模式实现超分辨,且在一定范围内连续可调。在横向旋转模式下,该滤波器为复振幅型光瞳滤波器,纵向倾斜模式下为纯相位型超分辨滤波器。通过对超分辨参量的分析,得到最佳设计参量,可以实现大的视场角,大的超分辨范围、高的调节精度。这种滤波器为实际应用提供了更多的方便。     

改进型基于径向双折射晶体的超分辨滤波器

改进了现有的基于径向双折射晶体的横向超分辨滤波器.通过调整偏振器的偏振方向和晶体光轴之间的夹角,改进的滤波器可以实现更广的超分辨可调范围,并且在相同的条件下,相对于现有的连续振幅型超分辨光瞳滤波器,超分辨性能和焦深都有较大提高.改进的超分辨滤波器,为实际应用提供了更多方便.     

Analysis of multiple wavelengths of Lamb waves generated by meander-line coil EMATs

The electromagnetic acoustic transducers (EMATs) with a meander-line coil possess the capability of generating Lamb waves carrying multiple wavelengths, and the characteristics of multiple wavelengths is analyzed by developing a spatial transversal filter model for the EMAT. It is shown that the characteristics is due to the wavelength spectrum of the EMATs, which is a wavelength-domain representation of information about the wavelength components, and the magnitude of each components is modulated by an envelope which depends on the geometric pattern of the meander-line coil. The characteristics of multiple wavelengths might cause the multi-modes phenomenon, therefore a method for removing the effect of multiple wavelengths is proposed. It is shown that the effect can be removed by designing an EMAT which can produce a special envelop to suppress the harmonic wavelengths. Experiments are set up to study the characteristics of multiple wavelengths and verify the validity of the proposed method.     

光子晶体四信道波分复用器的研究

提出了一种由2-D光子晶体构成的四信道波分复用系统。该系统包括利用光子晶体的线缺陷实现的波导部分和利用光子晶体微腔实现的频率选择部分。采用时域有限差分(FDTD)方法,研究了光在含点缺陷(即微腔)和线缺陷(即波导)的光子晶体中的传输特性,并给出了仿真结果。计算结果表明,该结构可以实现波长为λ=1550nm附近的四信道波分复用。     

Reconfigurable microwave photonic transversal filter using a variable gain tilt filter

A novel and simple technique to realize reconfigurable microwave photonic transversal filter is presented. In the proposed method, a multi-wavelength source and a dispersive medium are applied to achieve multiple taps; and an electro-optic ceramic material-based variable gain tilt filter (VGTF) is utilized to control the tap weights of the filter. The VGTF is computer-controlled via a universal serial bus interface, which enables real-time reconfiguration of the filter. Filter responses with different passband bandwidth and different sidelobe suppression can be achieved. Compared with previous approaches, the given method features in less optical components involved and faster response speed. A three-tap reconfigurable filter with sub-millisecond response speed is experimentally demonstrated.     

Spoof surface plasmon-based bandpass filter with extremely wide upper stopband

We investigate the guiding modes of spoof surface plasmon polaritons(SPPs) on a symmetric ultra-thin plasmonic structure. From the analysis, we deduce the operating frequency region of the single-mode propagation. Based on this property, a spoof SPPs lowpass filter is then constituted in the microwave frequency. By introducing a transmission zero at the lower frequency band using a pair of stepped-impedance stubs, a wide passband filter is further realized. The proposed filter is fed by a transducer composed of a microstrip line with a flaring ground. The simulated results show that the presented filter has an extremely wide upper stopband in addition to excellent passband filtering characteristics such as low loss, wide band, and high square ratio. A prototype passband filter is also fabricated to validate the predicted performances.The proposed spoof-SPPs filter is believed to be very promising for other surface waveguide components in microwave and terahertz bands.     

All-optical microwave notch filter with flat passband based on semiconductor optical amplifier

An all-optical filter structure for interference mitigation of microwave signals is proposed and demonstrated. The structure is based on a recirculating delay line loop (RDLL) and a fiber Bragg grating. The RDLL is comprised of a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) followed by a tunable narrowband optical filter and an optical variable delay line. Negative tap is generated using wavelength conversion based on the cross-gain modulation of amplified spontaneous emission spectrum of the SOA. A negative band-pass filter and a broadband all-pass filter are synthesized to achieve a narrow notch filter with flat passband which can excise interference with minimal impact on the wanted signal over a wide microwave range. Experimental results show the notch rejection ratio of 30 dB, good shape factor and tunability.     

Self-coupled dual-mode ring resonator with turning transmission zeros in microwave bandpass filter for planar metamaterial: analysis and design

An H-shape dual-mode closed resonator with self-coupled segments is reported. The self-coupling between ring segments renders an equivalent mode perturbation effect as the normal ways of adding stub, cutting notch, or varying line impedance to the ring resonator. The mode perturbation and transmission-zero generation from the self-coupling effect and step-impedance were analyzed using the even–odd mode theory. By regulating the impedance ratio and coupling coefficients of self-coupled sections, the self-coupled ring resonator can produce either the capacitive or inductive perturbation. The input and output positions affect the number and locations of transmission zero. The positions of input and output ports are properly selected. In the capacitive perturbation case, when the two transmission zeros are located on both sides of the passband, and bring about a pseudo-elliptic bandpass response. The analysis of finding optimized taping positions of input and output ports is proposed. Comparing to the regular uniform ring resonator, the H-shaped self-coupled ring resonator has shorter ring length, is easily to be folded and does not destroy the dual-mode characteristics. The feature of compact size is favorable in the design of a bandpass filter. A 2.45-GHz bandpass filter based on the H-shaped self-coupled ring resonator was performed to verify the proposed theory. A schematic bandpass filter was implemented with a compact size which is only 20% of the conventional dual-mode bandpass filter.     

声光自适应信号处理技术在扩频通信中的应用

研究了声光滤波的工作原理,用布拉格器件作模拟抽头延迟线完成横向滤波。讨论了LMS自适应滤波的基本方法,给出了声光自适应LMS滤波的实现方法并用于扩频通信的窄带干扰抑制中。对扩频通信进行干扰抑制的滤波过程通常是一个自适应过程,采用声光自适应滤波技术,不仅能抑制窄带干扰,而且能提高系统的处理增益和分辨率。     

An ASE Reduction Filter Using Cascaded Optical Fiber Grating Couplers in EDFA Repeater

A new configuration for an ASE reduction filter in EDFA repeaters for WDM optical transmission systems using optical fiber grating couplers (FGCs) was proposed and first demonstrated. The filtering characteristics of the proposed filter for amplified single wavelength signal and 2-channel WDM signals using EDFA were identified. It was found that the filter was effective to improve SNR in optical domain by reducing ASE noise. The required FGC characteristics for the filter were theoretically predicted under the condition that the total filter loss did not exceed 3 dB. More than 70% of drop efficiency was required in each FGC for the application of the proposed filter to an 8-channel WDM system using EDFA repeaters.     

Tunable microwave photonic filter based on chirped fiber gratings working with a single optical carrier at constant wavelength

This paper presents a tunable transversal filter working with a single optical carrier at constant wavelength. The filter consists of a set of chirped gratings whose time delay is tuned with respect to the emission wavelength of a fiber laser by a piezoelectric actuator; extra lengths of fiber are inserted in the filter arms in order to avoid interferences between signals reflected in different gratings. Two and three taps filters are experimentally demonstrated, the filters transfer function is electronically tuned within the free spectral range.     

Analysis of a second-order polarization-independent filter made of a single ring resonator and a Sagnac interferometer

A novel second-order polarization-independent filter made of a single ring resonator and a Sagnac interferometer (SRRSI) is proposed, and its filtering characteristics are investigated. By using birefringence in waveguide, a single ring resonator can be used to synthesize a filter with second-order response. Analytical formulas are derived for characteristics of the SRRSI varied with waveguide parameters, such as the coupling coefficient; and the critical condition of a second-order Butterworth filter is given. The influence of loss in the ring resonator is also analyzed.     

基于稳态卡尔曼滤波的红外焦平面阵列非均匀校正算法

传统的卡尔曼滤波算法利用批处理实现非均匀校正,这样不仅会带来较大的计算量和存储量,而且更重要的是该方法不能实时处理.为此,提出了一种基于稳态卡尔曼滤波的红外焦平面阵列非均匀校正算法,它可以根据固定图案噪声的特点离线计算出滤波器的增益矩阵,并且非均匀校正过程也采用了逐帧迭代方式,因此大大降低了计算复杂度和存储占用量.详细阐述了该算法的基本原理,并用仿真数据和真实红外数据对算法性能进行验证,实验结果表明:本方法平均校正一帧图像所需CPU时间和内存占用量分别为1.7188 s和131.25 KB,完全可以满足实时处理的要求.     

All-optical microwave bandpass filter with negative coefficients based on a phase modulator and linearly chirped fiber Bragg gratings

A novel all-optical microwave bandpass filter with negative coefficients is presented. Positive and negative coefficients are obtained through conversion from phase modulation to intensity modulation by passing the phase-modulated optical carriers through chirped fiber Bragg gratings having group-delay responses with positive and negative slopes. A two-tap transversal microwave filter with one negative coefficient is experimentally implemented.     

A Compact Narrow-Band Tunable Optical Transversal Filter

We present a compact narrow-band tunable optical transversal filter with phase-variable taps. A transmission bandwidth of the comb filter is less than 0.2nm and can be continuously tuned in the entire FSR.     

Theoretical analysis of multimode fiber amplifiers and lasers containing spatial filters

By the use of the coupling theory of the modes and the multimode rate equations, the performances of the multimode fiber amplifiers or lasers containing a spatial filter have been discussed. After the rate equations applicable to amplifiers are solved, the beam quality factors of the output from a multimode fiber amplifier with and without a single mode filter have been evaluated and compared. By the use of the analytical expression of the threshold pump power applicable to the multimode fiber lasers with the spatial filter and doped with quasi two-energy-level ions, and two example fibers had been selected which may guide 4 and 9 transversal modes, respectively, the threshold pump power for each transversal fiber mode has been evaluated. The results indicate that the single mode filter, does introduce a very strong discrimination for the modes between the high order modes and the fundamental mode. This should considerably favor the operation of the fundamental mode in the lasers with a homogeneously broadened active medium.     

Photonic crystal waveguide sampled gratings

Photonic crystal waveguide sampled gratings (PCWSG) are proposed to realize multi-channel optical filter in a photonic crystal (PC) waveguide. The reflection characteristics of the filter are analyzed by using the coupled-mode theory (CMT) together with transfer-matrix method (TMM). It is shown that the reflection spectrum of the filter exhibits a group of reflection peaks, which are distributed with equal frequency spacing within the photonic crystal bandgap (PBG). The theoretically calculated results are numerically verified by using two-dimensional (2D) finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method.