Noise Performance of Phase-Insensitive Multicasting in Multi-Stage Parametric Mixers

Abstract

Noise properties of large-count spectral multicasting in a phaseinsensitive parametric mixer were investigated. Scalable multicasting was achieved using two-tone continuous-wave seeded mixers capable of generating more than 20 frequency non-degenerate copies. The mixer was constructed using a multistage architecture to simultaneously manage high Figure-of-Merit frequency generation and suppress noise generation. The performance was characterized by measuring the conversion efficiency and noise figure of all signal copies. Minimum noise figure of 8.09dB was measured. Experimental findings confirm that noise of the multicasted signal does not grow linearly with copy count and that it can be suppressed below this limit.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 14, 2013
Accession Number
ADA572644

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  • Andreas O. Wiberg
  • Christopher K. Huynh
  • Everett W. Jacobs
  • Evgeny Myslivets
  • James R. Adleman
  • Sanja Zlatanovic
  • Stojan Radic
  • Zhi Tong

Organizations

  • University of California, San Diego

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplifiers
  • Bandwidth
  • C Band
  • Continuous Waves
  • Conversion
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Efficiency
  • Figure Of Merit
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Combs
  • Lasers
  • Measurement
  • Modulation
  • Optics
  • Parametric Amplifiers
  • Repetition Rate
  • Wave Mixing

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