Sensing RF signals with the optical wideband converter

George C. Valley; George A. Sefler; T. Justin Shaw

doi:10.1117/12.2002144

4 February 2013 Sensing RF signals with the optical wideband converter

George C. Valley, George A. Sefler, T. Justin Shaw

Proceedings Volume 8645, Broadband Access Communication Technologies VII; 86450P (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2002144
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2013, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

The optical wideband converter (OWC) is a system for measuring properties of RF signals in the GHz band without use of high speed electronics. In the OWC the RF signal is modulated on a repetitively pulsed optical field with a large wavelength chirp, the optical field is diffracted onto a spatial light modulator (SLM) whose pixels are modulated with a pseudo-random bit sequences (PRBSs), and finally the optical field is directed to a photodiode and the resulting current integrated for each PRBS. When the number of PRBSs and measurements equals the number of SLM pixels, the RF signal can be obtained in principle by multiplying the measurement vector by the inverse of the square matrix given by the PRBSs and the properties of the optics. When the number of measurements is smaller than the number of pixels, a compressive sensing (CS) measurement can be performed, and sparse RF signals can be obtained using one of the standard CS recovery algorithms such as the penalized l1 norm (also known as basis pursuit) or one of the variants of matching pursuit. Accurate reconstruction of RF signals requires good calibration of the OWC. In this paper, we present results using the OWC for RF signals consisting of 2 sinusoids recovered using 3 techniques (matrix inversion, basis pursuit, and matching pursuit). We compare results obtained with orthogonal matching pursuit with nonlinear least squares to basis pursuit with an over-complete dictionary.

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George C. Valley, George A. Sefler, and T. Justin Shaw "Sensing RF signals with the optical wideband converter", Proc. SPIE 8645, Broadband Access Communication Technologies VII, 86450P (4 February 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2002144

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