Nonlinear optical modulation combined with simultaneous photonic and RF resonance in an LiNbO3 microdisk modulator is used to create a self-homodyne photonic RF receiver. Carrier and sidebands are mixed in the optical domain, and the modulated optical signal is detected using a photodetector. The photodetector has a bandwidth matched to the baseband signal. It filters out the high-frequency com...

Abstract—In this paper, a novel dual-band RF-harvesting RF-DC converter with a frequency limited impedance matching network (M/N) is proposed. The proposed RF-DC converter consists of a dual-band impedance matching network, a rectifier circuit with villard structure, a wideband harmonic suppression low-pass filter (LPF), and a termination load. The proposed dual-band M/N can match two receiving...

The mixed-signal circuits with both analog and digital blocks on a single chip have wide applications in communication and RF circuits. Integrating these two blocks can cause serious problems especially in applications requiring fast digital circuits and high performance analog blocks. Fast switching in digital blocks generates a noise which can be introduced to analog circuits by the common su...

Device modeling, Integrated optics, Optical modulator, EO modulator, and Silicon optoelectronics Photonic links have been proposed to transport radio frequency (RF) signals over optical fiber communication systems. External optical modulation is commonly used in high performance RF photonic links. The practical use of optical fiber communication systems to transport RF signals is still limited ...

This paper proposes an RF signal generator using a time domain harmonic suppression technique based on Fourier series analysis. The circuit consists of four differential ring voltage control oscillators (VCO’s) with phase differences and the pulse signal summing circuit. By summing pulse signals from VCO’s with appropriate phase differences determined by Fourier series in time domain, the third...

A weighted averaging scheme with flip angle adaptation is presented for segmented 2D-selective RF excitations and applied to single-line segments of a blipped-planar trajectory. Segments covering the central k-space, i.e. those with significant signal contributions, are averaged more often than the (outer) segments with low RF amplitudes and minor signal contributions. For compensation, these o...

PURPOSE Parallel transmission (PTx) offers spatial control of radiofrequency (RF) fields that can be used to mitigate nonuniformity effects in high-field MRI. In practice, the ability to achieve uniform RF fields by static shimming is limited by the typically small number of channels. Thus, tailored RF pulses that mix gradient with RF encoding have been proposed. A complementary approach termed...