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 …

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 …

A monolithic integrated photonic microwave filter

JS Fandiño, P Muñoz, D Doménech, J Capmany - Nature Photonics, 2017 - nature.com
Meeting the increasing demand for capacity in wireless networks requires the harnessing of
higher regions in the radiofrequency spectrum, reducing cell size, as well as more compact …

A fully reconfigurable waveguide Bragg grating for programmable photonic signal processing

W Zhang, J Yao - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Since the discovery of the Bragg's law in 1913, Bragg gratings have become important
optical devices and have been extensively used in various systems. In particular, 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 …

Seven-bit reconfigurable optical true time delay line based on silicon integration

J Xie, L Zhou, Z Li, J Wang, J Chen - Optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We design, fabricate, and characterize a 7-bit reconfigurable optical true time delay line
consisting of Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) switches on the silicon photonics platform …

Design of narrowband Bragg spectral filters in subwavelength grating metamaterial waveguides

J Čtyroký, J Gonzalo Wangüemert-Pérez… - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Properties of reflection and transmission spectral filters based on Bragg gratings in
subwavelength grating (SWG) metamaterial waveguides on silicon-on-insulator platform …

Subwavelength grating enabled on-chip ultra-compact optical true time delay line

J Wang, R Ashrafi, R Adams, I Glesk, I Gasulla… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
An optical true time delay line (OTTDL) is a basic photonic building block that enables many
microwave photonic and optical processing operations. The conventional design for an …

Integrated discretely tunable optical delay line based on step-chirped subwavelength grating waveguide Bragg gratings

H Sun, Y Wang, LR Chen - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate experimentally a discretely tunable optical delay line (ODL) using a step-
chirped subwavelength grating (SWG) waveguide Bragg grating (BG) in silicon-on-insulator …

A multifunctional photonic integrated circuit for diverse microwave signal generation, transmission, and processing

X Zou, F Zou, Z Cao, B Lu, X Yan, G Yu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Microwave photonics (MWP) studies the interaction between microwaves and optical waves
for the generation, transmission, and processing of microwave signals (ie, three key …