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Tesi etd-09302016-154740

Tipo di tesi
Dottorato
Autore
ONORI, DANIEL
URN
etd-09302016-154740
Titolo
SWaP constrained photonics assisted RF receivers for Electronic Support Measures
Settore scientifico disciplinare
ING-INF/03
Corso di studi
INGEGNERIA - Ph.D. Programme in Emerging Digital Technologies (EDT)
Commissione
relatore Prof.ssa BOGONI, ANTONELLA
Presidente PAVESI, LORENZO
Membro SORIANELLO, VITO
Membro TORNATORE, MASSIMO
Membro VERCHERE, DOMINIQUE
Membro ANDRIOLLI, NICOLA
Membro CASTOLDI, PIERO
Membro OTON NIETO, CLAUDIO JOSE
Parole chiave
  • Direct Conversion Receiver
  • Electronic Support Measures
  • Microwave photonics
Data inizio appello
12/05/2017;
Disponibilità
completa
Riassunto analitico
Photonics-assisted RF receiver architectures have been proposed, studied and designed. The innovative solutions exploit photonic techniques to perform a wideband scanning of the RF input spectrum avoiding bulky multiple crystal oscillators and bandpass filters, enabling the solution to overcome the size, weight and power bottleneck that faces pure electronics-based counterparts. The developed demonstrator shows an operating of 0.5÷28.5 GHz, limited by laboratory constraints, and simulative analysis ensures exceeding the 0.5÷40 GHz goal by simply employing commercially available electro-optical devices accepting higher RF driving voltages. The architecture can exhibit an instantaneous bandwidth of several GHz, with linear dynamic range of 160 dB/Hz, spurious-free dynamic range of 109 dB/Hz2/3, second order input intercept point of 57 dBm, and a measured DC offset lower than 50 µV. Field-trial campaign results, from relevant Electronic Support Measures scenarios, have been presented, too. Stemming from the same photonic architecture, an innovative software-defined and filter-free RF transmitter has been also proposed and validated.
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