Recent advances and future directions of microwave photonic radars: a review

SSS Panda, T Panigrahi, SR Parne… - IEEE Sensors …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Microwave photonic (MWP) radar has the advantages of generating and processing wide
bandwidth microwave signals, reconfigurability, high immunity to electromagnetic …

A photonics-assisted multi-band MIMO radar network for the port of the future

G Serafino, S Maresca, L Di Mauro… - IEEE Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Internet-of-Things paradigm is pushing the current fully-automated industry to Industry
4.0, laying on a high degree of end-to-end digitization of all physical assets and their …

Photonics-based MIMO radar with broadband digital coincidence imaging

G Sun, Y Zhou, Y He, X Yu, F Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Photonics-based radars with a large operation bandwidth enable a high-range resolution.
Achieving high angular resolution typically demands a large aperture size or a large …

Multi-static multi-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) constellation based on integrated photonic circuits

M Reza, MMH Amir, M Imran, G Pandey… - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Multi-static SARs from LEO orbits allow the single-pass high-resolution imaging and
detection of moving targets. A coherent MIMO approach requires the generation of multi …

Photonics-enabled distributed MIMO radar for high-resolution 3D imaging

J Dong, Q Sun, Z Jiao, L Zhang, Z Yin, J Huang… - Photonics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Three-dimensional (3D) imaging radar is an advanced sensor applied in space surveillance
and target recognition for supplying 3D geometric features and supporting visualization …

Coherent stepped-frequency waveform generation based on recirculating microwave photonic frequency conversion

C Ma, X Wang, Y Yang, Z Ding, S Pan - Optics Letters, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We propose a novel method for generating coherent and wideband stepped-frequency
waveforms using recirculating microwave photonic frequency conversion (MWP-FC). By …

On the design of an optimal coherent multistatic radar network configuration

PE Berry, N Dahal… - IET Radar, Sonar & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The purpose of operating a radar system multistatically is to acquire information about
targets of interest more quickly and reliably than would be possible using disparate radars …

Widely distributed photonics-based dual-band MIMO radar for harbour surveillance

F Scotti, S Maresca, L Lembo… - IEEE Photonics …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new architecture for a widely distributed dual-band coherent multiple-input multiple-output
(MIMO) radar system is illustrated, and its implementation and testing are reported. The …

Experimental dual-band coherent photonics-based radar network with ISAR imaging

G Serafino, C Noviello, S Maresca… - 2022 IEEE Radar …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, an operative radar network based on microwave photonics techniques is
presented. The proposed system employs a centralized architecture, with a central unit …

Coherent multi-band MIMO radar: robustness analysis to SSMF-based RF signal delivery

G Pandey, M Scaffardi, S Maresca, MM Haris Amir… - Optics Letters, 2024 - opg.optica.org
A numerical evaluation is conducted to assess the impact of distributing radio frequency
(RF) signals through optical fiber links on the performance of a coherent multi-band multiple …