Photonics channelization spectrum stitching technique in a dual-OFC-based channelizer

A novel photonics channelization spectrum stitching technique in a dual-OFC-based photonic channelizer for receiving a wide-band signal is proposed. By studying the slow and rapid variant characteristics of the channel differences separately, all the channels’ responses are precisely estimated and stitched in the frequency domain. A proof-of-concept experiment is performed and signals with 3 GHz bandwidth are recovered with an SNR loss of 1.01 dB.