Abstract
A photonics-based system for simultaneous angle of arrival (AOA) and frequency measurement is proposed and demonstrated. In the proposed system, an acousto-optic modulator (AOM) based optical frequency shift loop (OFSL) is used to generate an optical frequency-stepped local oscillator (LO). After balanced in-phase and quadrature (I/Q) down-conversion with the frequency-stepped LO, the frequency to be measured is obtained. Thanks to the balanced I/Q down-conversion, the image frequencies and undesired frequency-mixing components can be suppressed, making the system have better adaptability to multiple-target scenarios. In addition, the AOA from different RF sources can also be estimated based on the Van Cittert–Zernike theorem, even if the working bands of these targets overlap with each other. In the proof-of-concept experiment, the measurement of multiple targets with different frequencies is achieved by frequency detection with 0.179 MHz resolution. Moreover, incoherent microwave sources at the same frequency band can also be distinguished in the angular direction, achieving the capacity of simultaneous frequency and AOA measurement of multiple-target.
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