Photonic beamforming for 5G and beyond: A review of true time delay devices enabling ultra-wideband beamforming for mmWave communications

B Paul, K Sertel, NK Nahar - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The next generations of wireless communications are promising high capacity, low latency,
and high throughput, enabled by millimeter wave spectrum. Beamforming and beam …

Silicon quantum photonics

JW Silverstone, D Bonneau, JL O'Brien… - IEEE Journal of …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Integrated quantum photonic applications, providing physically guaranteed communications
security, subshot-noise measurement, and tremendous computational power, are nearly …

Integrated optical delay lines: a review and perspective

L Zhou, X Wang, L Lu, J Chen - Chinese Optics Letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Optical delay lines (ODLs) are one of the key enabling components in photonic integrated
circuits and systems. They are widely used in time-division multiplexing, optical signal …

Silicon integrated microwave photonic beamformer

C Zhu, L Lu, W Shan, W Xu, G Zhou, L Zhou, J Chen - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Optical beam-forming networks (OBFNs) based on optical true-time delay lines (OTTDLs)
are well known as the promising candidate for solving the bandwidth limitation of traditional …

Microcomb-based true-time-delay network for microwave beamforming with arbitrary beam pattern control

X Xue, Y Xuan, C Bao, S Li, X Zheng… - Journal of lightwave …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Microwave phased array antennas (PAAs) are very attractive to defense applications and
high-speed wireless communications for their abilities of fast beam scanning and complex …

Microwave photonic array radars

S Pan, X Ye, Y Zhang, F Zhang - IEEE Journal of Microwaves, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Phased array radars have remarkable advantages over radars with single-element antenna
in terms of agility, flexibility, robustness, and reconfigurability. Current pure-electronic …

Material platforms for integrated quantum photonics

S Bogdanov, MY Shalaginov, A Boltasseva… - Optical Materials …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
On-chip integration of quantum optical systems could be a major factor enabling photonic
quantum technologies. Unlike the case of electronics, where the essential device is the …

Continuously tunable ultra-thin silicon waveguide optical delay line

X Wang, L Zhou, R Li, J Xie, L Lu, K Wu, J Chen - Optica, 2017 - opg.optica.org
As light cannot be stopped or directly stored in any media, optical delay lines are usually
used to temporally trap the optical signals. We report a wide-range continuously tunable …

Ultralow-loss compact silicon photonic waveguide spirals and delay lines

S Hong, L Zhang, Y Wang, M Zhang, Y Xie… - Photonics Research, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Low-loss and compact optical waveguides are key for realizing various photonic integrated
circuits with long on-chip delay lines, such as tunable optical delay lines, optical coherence …

Advanced integration techniques on broadband millimeter-wave beam steering for 5G wireless networks and beyond

Z Cao, Q Ma, AB Smolders, Y Jiao… - IEEE journal of …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, the desired very high throughput of 5G wireless networks drives millimeter-wave
(mm-wave) communication into practical applications. A phased array technique is required …