Performance amelioration of simultaneous up- and down-mixing contingent on a parallel SOA-MZIs design

The primary focus of this research is the creation of a first-ever experimental investigation for simultaneous up-down mixing based on three parallel semiconductor optical amplifier Mach-Zehnder interferometers (SOA-MZIs). The three mixed signals from the SOA-MZI terminals are coupled together to create a simultaneous up or down-mixed signal using an optical coupler (OC). The identified mixing function makes use of the consequences of cross-gain modulation (XGM) as well as cross-phase modulation (XPM) that have been shown at the SOA-MZI outlets. Furthermore, the performance characterization of the photonic parallel system is examined and assessed in the optical and electrical sectors. The outcomes of our experiment closely resemble those of the simulation. Several measurable factors, including power scaling measurements, optical conversion gain (OCG), power stability, beam quality factor, electrical conversion gain (ECG), and error vector magnitude (EVM), are employed to evaluate the photonic up and down-mixed signals. This three-parallel SOA-MZIs architecture has a wide range of applications involving radio over fiber and optical telecommunications. A 256-QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) up- and down-mixed signals can have a top bit rate of 64 Gbit/s with excellent EVM values. Additionally, the maximal frequency range of the concurrent up and down-mixed signal is 80 GHz. The ECG also displays significant values for up and down conversion. In the optical domain, the OCG has the highest values of 15 dB for the up-mixed signal and 12 dB for the down-mixed one, with a data input power of −10 dBm. Finally, the simultaneous mixing system tackles an outstanding beam quality factor with M2 measurement of less than 1.3 (M2)