Patent ID: 7269354

Claim:
An optoelectronic RF signal receiver comprising a first RF to photonic modulator for receiving an optical signal and an electrical local oscillator signal and producing an optical carrier signal with first sidebands offset from the optical carrier signal by a frequency of the electrical local oscillator signal, a second RF to photonic modulator for receiving an electrical RF signal and the optical signals from the first modulator and producing second sidebands to each of the first sidebands from the first modulator with each of the second sidebands being offset from the corresponding first sideband by the electrical RF signal frequency, and a third RF to photonic modulator for receiving an electrical signal and the optical signals from the first modulator and producing third sidebands to each of the first sidebands from the first modulator with each of the third sidebands being offset from the corresponding first sideband by the electrical signal frequency.