Analysis and performance of photonic microwave filters based on multiple optical carriers

Abstract

In this paper a Photonic microwave filters are photonics sub system design with aim of carrying equivalent tasks to those an supplementary advantage inherent to photonics such as low lass, high band width, immunity to electromagnetic inference (EMI), tunability, reconfigurability, reduced size and weight, and low and constant electrical loss. Many photonic microwave filter architectures have been proposed over the last years using a variety of fiber-optic devices. Some of them are based on using multiple optical carriers wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM)] and dispersive media to obtain a set of time-delayed samples of the RF input signal. In this paper, the statistical analysis of the performance of photonic microwave filter is based on multiple optical carriers (WDM) and a dispersive medium, with random errors in amplitude and wavelength spacing between optical carriers is presented. © 2012 ICST Institute for Computer Science, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering.