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 …

Optical beamforming networks for millimeter-wave wireless communications

F Duan, Y Guo, Z Gu, Y Yin, Y Wu, T Chen - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
With the rapid data growth driven by smart phone, high-definition television and virtual
reality/augmented reality devices and so on, the launched 5G and upcoming 6G wireless …

Chip-based Brillouin processing for microwave photonic phased array antennas

M Garrett, M Merklein… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this review paper, we provide perspectives on the implementation of high-performance,
wideband, chip-based Brillouin microwave photonic processing subsystems for use in …

True time delay optical beamforming network based on hybrid InP-silicon nitride integration

C Tsokos, E Andrianopoulos, A Raptakis… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate a broadband and continuously tunable 1× 4 optical beamforming network
(OBFN), based on the hybrid integration of indium phosphide (InP) components in the silicon …

[PDF][PDF] Low-loss chip-scale programmable silicon photonic processor

Y Xie, S Hong, H Yan, C Zhang, L Zhang… - Opto-Electron …, 2023 - researching.cn
Chip-scale programmable optical signal processors are often used to flexibly manipulate the
optical signals for satisfying the demands in various applications, such as lidar, radar, and …

An integrated photonic-assisted phased array transmitter for direct fiber to mm-wave links

P Sanjari, F Aflatouni - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Millimeter-wave (mm-wave) phased arrays can realize multi-Gb/s communication
links but face challenges such as signal distribution and higher power consumption …

Terabit FSO communication based on a soliton microcomb

W Shao, Y Wang, S Jia, Z Xie, D Gao, W Wang… - Photonics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Free-space optical (FSO) communication technology is a promising approach to establish a
secure wireless link, which has the advantages of excellent directionality, large bandwidth …

[HTML][HTML] Versatile silicon microwave photonic spectral shaper

X Guo, Y Liu, T Yin, B Morrison, M Pagani, O Daulay… - APL Photonics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Optical modulation plays arguably the utmost important role in microwave photonic (MWP)
systems. Precise synthesis of modulated optical spectra dictates virtually all aspects of MWP …

An integrated optical beamforming network for two-dimensional phased array radar

Q Cheng, S Zheng, Q Zhang, J Ji, H Yu, X Zhang - Optics Communications, 2021 - Elsevier
In recent years, optically controlled phased array radar has been widely used because of its
high radiation power, flexible beam steering and anti-electromagnetic interference, but the …

Chip-based SBS for image rejection in a broadband microwave photonic mixer

L McKay, C Kong Lai, NJ Athanasios, DY Choi… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Microwave photonics offers a promising solution for frequency converting microwave
signals, however, demonstrations so far have either been bulky fibre implementations or …