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 …

Integrated pockels laser

M Li, L Chang, L Wu, J Staffa, J Ling, UA Javid… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The development of integrated semiconductor lasers has miniaturized traditional bulky laser
systems, enabling a wide range of photonic applications. A progression from pure III-V …

Microwave photonic radars

S Pan, Y Zhang - Journal of Lightwave technology, 2020 - opg.optica.org
As the only method for all-weather, all-time and long-distance target detection and
recognition, radar has been intensively studied since it was invented, and is considered as …

A low-noise photonic heterodyne synthesizer and its application to millimeter-wave radar

EA Kittlaus, D Eliyahu, S Ganji, S Williams… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Microwave photonics offers transformative capabilities for ultra-wideband electronic signal
processing and frequency synthesis with record-low phase noise levels. Despite the intrinsic …

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 …

Photonic radar for 3D imaging: From millimeter to terahertz waves

L Yi, Y Li, T Nagatsuma - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the development of 5G and other technologies, radar imaging techniques in high-
frequency bands up to the terahertz (THz) range have attracted considerable attention. In …

Photonic radar for contactless vital sign detection

Z Zhang, Y Liu, T Stephens, BJ Eggleton - Nature Photonics, 2023 - nature.com
Vital sign detection is used across ubiquitous scenarios in medical and health settings, and
contact and wearable sensors have been widely deployed. However, they are unsuitable for …

Photonics-based real-time ultra-high-range-resolution radar with broadband signal generation and processing

F Zhang, Q Guo, S Pan - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Real-time and high-resolution target detection is highly desirable in modern radar
applications. Electronic techniques have encountered grave difficulties in the development …

Ka-band microwave photonic ultra-wideband imaging radar for capturing quantitative target information

A Wang, J Wo, X Luo, Y Wang, W Cong, P Du… - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Extracting precise target characteristics from microwave image is needed and calls for high-
resolution microwave imaging radar systems. In this paper, a Ka-band ultra-wideband …

Integrated lithium niobate photonic millimetre-wave radar

S Zhu, Y Zhang, J Feng, Y Wang, K Zhai, H Feng… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
Millimetre-wave (mmWave) radars are key enabler in the upcoming 6G era for high-
resolution sensing and detection. Conventional photonic radars are mostly realized in …