Microwave photonics (MWP) is an interdisciplinary field that combines two different areas of
microwave engineering and photonics. It has several key features by transferring signals …

A reconfigurable and wideband photonic method is proposed for microwave photonic
harmonic down-conversion based on cascaded four-wave mixing in a semiconductor optical …

An approach to characterizing the microwave performance of an electro-optic Mach–
Zehnder modulator (MZM) is proposed based on photonic down-conversion sampling …

Electrically tunable bandpass filters based on liquid crystals are designed, built, and
characterized using a vector network analyzer. The filters are composed of half-wavelength …

A self-reference and on-chip method for extracting the intrinsic frequency responses
including modulation index and half-wave voltage of electro-optic modulator (EOM) chips is …

A flexible ultra-wide frequency photonic-assisted method is proposed for microwave
harmonic down-conversion based on re-circulating four-wave mixing (RFWM) in a …

A self-referenced method based on heterodyne carrier mapping is proposed to characterize
the modulation efficiency of high-speed electro-optic phase modulators (EOPMs). The …

A method for obtaining picosecond pulse sources with continuously tunable central
wavelengths is demonstrated numerically and experimentally. A dissipative soliton (DS) …

We propose and demonstrate a highly efficient photonic-assisted microwave signal
harmonic frequency down-conversion using four-wave mixing (FWM) in a silicon waveguide …

A bias-independent and self-calibrated measurement is proposed for the high-frequency
response of dual-parallel Mach–Zehnder modulators (DPMZMs) based on two-tone and …