Photonics for microwave measurements

X Zou, B Lu, W Pan, L Yan, A Stöhr… - Laser & Photonics …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
As an emerging topic, photonic‐assisted microwave measurements with distinct features
such as wide frequency coverage, large instantaneous bandwidth, low frequency …

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 …

Photonics for radars operating on multiple coherent bands

P Ghelfi, F Laghezza, F Scotti, D Onori… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2016 - opg.optica.org
The introduction of photonics in microwave systems is setting new paradigms in radar
architectures, providing new features potentially improving the surveillance effectiveness. In …

Multi-band software-defined coherent radar based on a single photonic transceiver

F Scotti, F Laghezza, P Ghelfi… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a photonics-based architecture of a multi-band coherent radar system is
proposed and validated. The precision and flexibility of photonic technologies are exploited …

A combined radar & lidar system based on integrated photonics in silicon-on-insulator

F Falconi, S Melo, F Scotti, MN Malik… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work reports the first realization of a combined radar&lidar system based on silicon-on-
insulator photonic integrated circuit (PIC). The software-defined architecture comprises a …

Quantum microwave photonics

T Hao, Y Yang, Y **, X **ang, W Li, N Zhu… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
By combing photonics and radiofrequency (RF) engineering, microwave photonics has been
widely studied in the past few decades for the generation, processing, control and …

Dual-use system combining simultaneous active radar & communication, based on a single photonics-assisted transceiver

S Melo, S Pinna, A Bogoni, IF Da Costa… - 2016 17th …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper report on the development and field trial of a dual-band and dual-use system
based on a single photonics-based transceiver and a single radiating element, able to …

Microwave photonic video imaging radar with widely tunable bandwidth for monitoring diverse airspace targets

X Luo, A Wang, J Wo, Y Wang, J Fu, Y Zhu… - Optics …, 2019 - Elsevier
A microwave photonic (MWP) video imaging radar with a bandwidth tuning range of 0–10
GHz is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. In the transmitting path, high-frequency …

Advanced photonics-based radar signal generation technology for practical radar application

Y Tong - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Photonics-based radar technologies can implement better performance in some main
functionalities of the radar systems. The outstanding question is whether these technologies …

Field evaluation of a photonics‐based radar system in a maritime environment compared to a reference commercial sensor

F Laghezza, F Scotti, G Serafino… - IET Radar, Sonar & …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This study shows the experimental validation of the first photonics‐based radar system
demonstrator in a real maritime environment. The radar system demonstrator exploits …