Radiofrequency signal-generation system with over seven octaves of continuous tuning

GJ Schneider, JA Murakowski, CA Schuetz, S Shi… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Spectrum congestion and demand for higher data rates are driving a push towards higher
carrier frequencies in wireless communications, necessitating sources of exceptionally pure …

An optical-frequency synthesizer using integrated photonics

DT Spencer, T Drake, TC Briles, J Stone, LC Sinclair… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Optical-frequency synthesizers, which generate frequency-stable light from a single
microwave-frequency reference, are revolutionizing ultrafast science and metrology, but …

Linear photonic radio frequency phase shifter using a differential-group-delay element and an optical phase modulator

Z Li, C Yu, Y Dong, L Cheng, LFK Lui, C Lu, APT Lau… - Optics letters, 2010 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a stable and linear photonic radio frequency (RF) phase shifter based on a
differential-group-delay element and the polarization sensitive effect of an optical phase …

A low-noise photonic heterodyne synthesizer and its application to millimeter-wave radar

EA Kittlaus, D Eliyahu, S Ganji, S Williams… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Microwave photonics offers transformative capabilities for ultra-wideband electronic signal
processing and frequency synthesis with record-low phase noise levels. Despite the intrinsic …

Ultra-wide bandwidth photonic microwave phase shifter with amplitude control function

X Wang, J Zhang, EHW Chan, X Feng, B Guan - Optics Express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
This paper presents a new technique for realizing continuous 0°-360° RF signal phase shift
over a very wide bandwidth. It is based on using single-sideband modulation together with …

Optical frequency synthesizer with an integrated erbium tunable laser

M Xin, N Li, N Singh, A Ruocco, Z Su… - Light: Science & …, 2019 - nature.com
Optical frequency synthesizers have widespread applications in optical spectroscopy,
frequency metrology, and many other fields. However, their applicability is currently limited …

An integrated-photonics optical-frequency synthesizer

DT Spencer, T Drake, TC Briles, J Stone… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2017 - arxiv.org
Integrated-photonics microchips now enable a range of advanced functionalities for high-
coherence applications such as data transmission, highly optimized physical sensors, and …

An ultralow phase noise coupled optoelectronic oscillator

E Salik, N Yu, L Maleki - IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultralow jitter optical pulse sources are much needed in optical communications, optical
sampling, and metrology applications. We report a coupled optoelectronic oscillator …

Programmable broadband optical field spectral shaping with megahertz resolution using a simple frequency shifting loop

C Schnébelin, J Azaña… - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Controlling the temporal and spectral properties of light is crucial for many applications.
Current state-of-the-art techniques for shaping the time-and/or frequency-domain field of an …

Photonic RF phase shifter based on optical carrier and RF modulation sidebands amplitude and phase control

EHW Chan, WW Zhang… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new photonic microwave phase shifter that can achieve a full 360° phase shift with very
little RF signal amplitude variation, and which can operate over very wide frequency range …