A summary of current work involving the development of high performance, wavelength-tunable integrated optical transmitters for analog applications is given. The performance of sampled-grating DBR lasers integrated with an SOA and an electroabsorption or Mach-Zehnder modulator is evaluated in terms of E/O conversion efficiency, noise performance and dynamic range. Optimization options to maximi...

A novel radio frequency sensor technology is presented for continuous monitoring of the radio frequency spectrum with large instantaneous bandwidth that can perform spectral analysis and direction finding simultaneously. The photonic receiver technology relies on a spatial spectral (S2) holographic crystal recording device that is an extreme bandwidth analyzer and correlator (EBAC). The S2 EBAC...

This work presents a 14-bit oversampled successive-approximation-register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with mismatch error shaping (MES) and pre-comparison techniques. A technique is proposed to solve the over-range problem caused by MES. With MES pre-comparison, digital-to-analog (DAC) can be first-order shaped, while full input range maintained. Besides, data-driven noise reduction...

This paper presents a Digital Signal Processing (DSP) technique to compensate nonlinearities in reconfigurable Sigma Delta (ΣΔ) Modulator. In order to design digitally enhanced transceiver, a problem of nonlinearities in these modulators should be addressed. The problem arises due to the constituent building block of ΣΔ Modulators i.e. Digital to Analog Converter (DAC). Since DAC is outside the...

A novel microwave photonic link (MPL) with an improved spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) based on a bidirectional use of a polarization modulator (PolM) in a Sagnac loop is proposed and demonstrated. The PolM in the loop functions, in conjunction with a polarization controller and a polarization beam combiner, as a Mach Zehnder modulator (MZM), which only modulates the incident light wave alon...

A linear modulator is indispensable for radio frequency photonics or analog photonic link applications where high dynamic range is required. There is also great interest to integrate the modulator with other photonic components, to create a photonic integrated circuit for these applications, with particular focus on silicon photonics integration in order to take advantage of complementary metal...

By Zhihe Zhou, Ph.D. Washington State University August 2006 Chair: George S. La Rue We investigated the design and implementation of non-linear D/A converters (DAC) for a direct digital frequency synthesizer (DDFS), which consists of a phase accumulator, a phase-to-sine look-up table and a DAC. Using a non-linear DAC can significantly reduce the look-up table size, hence, reducing the power di...

In this paper we demonstrate highly linear Mach-Zehnder interferometer modulators utilizing heterogeneous integration on a Si substrate (HS-MZM). A record high dynamic range was achieved for silicon devices, obtained using hybrid III-V/Si phase modulation sections and single drive push-pull operation, demonstrating a spurious free dynamic range (SFDR) of 112 dB∙Hz2/3 at 10 GHz, compa...

Design and experimental validation of a simple photonic phase-lockedloop (PPLL) linear phase demodulator employing a novel attenuating counter propagating (ACP) in-loop phase modulator are presented. The ACP in-loop phase modulator is free of propagation delay, allowing stable operation of the PPLL with large gain. Highly linear optical phase demodulation was observed and the measured spurious ...

A 10Ms/s 11-b algorithmic ADC with an active area of 0.19mm is presented. Using an improved clocking scheme, this design overcomes the speed limit of algorithmic ADCs. The proposed ADC employs amplifier sharing, DC offset cancellation, and input memory effect suppression to reduce area and power, and achieve high linearity. The ADC implemented in a 0.13μm thick gate-oxide CMOS process achieves ...