Abstract: An optical module includes an upper shell, a lower shell, a circuit board, a fixing frame, a light source emitter, a first optical fiber, a modulation chip, and a circuit sub-board. The lower shell is covered with the upper shell to form a mounting cavity. The circuit board is disposed in the mounting cavity. The light source emitter is fixedly connected to the fixing frame and configured to emit a light beam. The modulation chip is connected to the light source emitter through the first optical fiber and configured to load a signal into the light beam emitted by the light source emitter to form an optical signal. The circuit sub-board is disposed on a side of the circuit board proximate to the upper shell and fixedly connected to the fixing frame. The circuit sub-board is electrically connected to the circuit board and the light source emitter.

Abstract: A photonic microwave down-conversion system and method. The oscillation loop includes an electro-optic modulator, optical narrow-band notch filter, photodetector and electrical combiner which has the function of generating the local oscillator signal. The frequency of the local oscillator signal can be flexibly adjusted by changing the lightwave frequency output from the wavelength tunable laser. The phase modulation function of the electro-optic modulator enables no RF signal output from the down-conversion photodetector It can not only down convert the RF signals with different frequencies to the intermediate frequency signals with the same frequency, but also can down convert the RF signals with the same frequency to the intermediate frequency signals with different frequencies. This can effectively overcome the limitations of complicated structure, poor RF isolation and difficulty in flexible tuning for microwave down-conversion system in the prior arts.

Abstract: A photonic microwave down-conversion system and method. The oscillation loop includes an electro-optic modulator, optical narrow-band notch filter, photodetector and electrical combiner which has the function of generating the local oscillator signal. The frequency of the local oscillator signal can be flexibly adjusted by changing the lightwave frequency output from the wavelength tunable laser. The phase modulation function of the electro-optic modulator enables no RF signal output from the down-conversion photodetector It can not only down convert the RF signals with different frequencies to the intermediate frequency signals with the same frequency, but also can down convert the RF signals with the same frequency to the intermediate frequency signals with different frequencies. This can effectively overcome the limitations of complicated structure, poor RF isolation and difficulty in flexible tuning for microwave down-conversion system in the prior arts.