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 …

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 …

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 …

Continuous-wave electrically pumped 1550 nm lasers epitaxially grown on on-axis (001) silicon

B Shi, H Zhao, L Wang, B Song, ST Suran Brunelli… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Heteroepitaxy of III–V compound semiconductors on industry standard (001) silicon (Si)
substrates is highly desirable for large-scale electronic and photonic integrated circuits …

Ultra-low-loss silicon nitride optical beamforming network for wideband wireless applications

Y Liu, AR Wichman, B Isaac… - IEEE Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Three optical ring resonator (ORR)-based integrated ultra-low-loss silicon nitride 1× 4
optical beamforming networks (OBFNs) for millimeter-wave (mmW) beamsteering are …

A seven bit silicon optical true time delay line for Ka-band phased array antenna

P Zheng, C Wang, X Xu, J Li, D Lin, G Hu… - IEEE Photonics …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A seven-bit optical true time delay unit with a delay tuning increment of 1.42 ps was
designed and fabricated on silicon photonics platform, which can be utilized in Ka-band …

Broadband continuously tunable microwave photonic delay line based on cascaded silicon microrings

W Shan, L Lu, X Wang, G Zhou, Y Liu, J Chen… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We present a novel broadband continuously tunable microwave photonic delay line
consisting of a modulator, a four-stage microring resonator delay line, a tunable optical …

[HTML][HTML] Defect engineering for high quality InP epitaxially grown on on-axis (001) Si

B Shi, J Klamkin - Journal of Applied Physics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Heteroepitaxy of indium phosphide (InP) and its lattice-matched alloys on silicon (Si) show
great promise for Si-based optoelectronic devices and photonic integrated circuits. Here, we …

Indium phosphide photonic integrated circuits: Technology and applications

J Klamkin, H Zhao, B Song, Y Liu… - 2018 IEEE BiCMOS …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A summary of photonic integrated circuit (PIC) platforms is provided with emphasis on
indium phosphide (InP). Examples of InP PICs were fabricated and characterized for free …

Automatic monitor-based tuning of an RF silicon photonic 1X4 asymmetric binary tree true-time-delay beamforming network

G Choo, CK Madsen, S Palermo… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Photonic beamforming networks are promising candidates to achieve power-efficient
transmission in future cellular communication systems. However, sensitivity to process and …