Microwave photonics frequency conversion of microwave signals

Comparative study of different architectures for microwave photonics frequency converters of microwave signals is presented. Characteristics of the receivers with different architectures are obtained with the help of numerical simulation. Experimental parameters for the prototypes of receivers show good agreement with the results of numerical simulation. It is shown that the signal-to-noise ratio can reach 60–70 for a carrier frequency of tens of gigahertz and a receiving bandwidth of several hundreds of megahertz