@jwt0625 In the industry, EML refers to an electro-absorption modulated laser. There is no SOA involved, nor is there an optical circulator. The high-power laser (>100mW)refers to a DFB laser, which is only used to provide a constant light source.
Why does directly connecting a 10 Gbps PRBS signal generated by an AWG to a spectrum analyzer show power at 10 GHz?
Is it due to pre-emphasis or leakage from the CDR's VCO?
I am more than happy that you like it! In fact, I am a newcomer to ZYNQ and SDR. This board is not completed yet. I have uploaded it to GitHub and attached instructions. you can find it here: https://t.co/4dA1n8AE1y
@suarezvictor However, I haven't thoroughly verified the RF section. The LDO is difficult to buy, and the LC balun is not suitable for wideband application. and the resistors for the DCDC circuit need to be recalculated.
@suarezvictor I have already verified the ZYNQ section of this board. A DDR reset resistor under the SD card slot interferes with it. However, DDR still functions normally even without installing it. The DDR can run at the max frequency supported by ZYNQ, and USB also works properly.
Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo:
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”