Applications of optical microcombs

Y Sun, J Wu, M Tan, X Xu, Y Li, R Morandotti… - Advances in Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Optical microcombs represent a new paradigm for generating laser frequency combs based
on compact chip-scale devices, which have underpinned many modern technological …

High-power, high-linearity photodiodes

A Beling, X **e, JC Campbell - Optica, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Microwave photonics and optics-based analog links are technologies that are being
developed for a growing number of applications. Photodetectors that operate at high power …

Photonic RF phase-encoded signal generation with a microcomb source

X Xu, M Tan, J Wu, A Boes, B Corcoran… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate photonic RF phase encoding based on an integrated micro-comb source.
By assembling single-cycle Gaussian pulse replicas using a transversal filtering structure …

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 …

Photonic millimeter-wave joint radar communication system using spectrum-spreading phase-coding

W Bai, X Zou, P Li, J Ye, Y Yang, L Yan… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel millimeter-Wave (mm-Wave) joint radar and communication (JRC) system based on
photonic spectrum-spreading phase-coding is proposed. The key to the proposed system is …

Silicon-based integrated microwave photonics

W Zhang, J Yao - IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Integrated microwave photonics is an emerging field in which photonic integrated
technologies are employed to realize on-chip integration of microwave photonic systems …

Linearly chirped microwave waveform generation with large time-bandwidth product by optically injected semiconductor laser

P Zhou, F Zhang, Q Guo, S Pan - Optics Express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
A scheme for photonic generation of linearly chirped microwave waveforms (LCMWs) with a
large time-bandwidth product (TBWP) is proposed and demonstrated based on an optically …

Photonic generation of background-free binary phase-coded microwave pulses

S Zhu, M Li, X Wang, NH Zhu, ZZ Cao, W Li - Optics Letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We report a photonic scheme to generate background-free frequency-doubled binary phase-
coded microwave pulses. The key component is a dual-polarization dual-parallel Mach …

Arbitrary microwave waveform generation based on a tunable optoelectronic oscillator

W Li, F Kong, J Yao - Journal of lightwave technology, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Photonic generation of a phase-coded or frequency-chirped microwave waveform with a
tunable microwave carrier frequency using a frequency-tunable optoelectronic oscillator …

Photonic generation of linear-frequency-modulated waveforms with improved time-bandwidth product based on polarization modulation

Y Zhang, X Ye, Q Guo, F Zhang… - Journal of lightwave …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Polarization modulation of two phase-correlated, orthogonally polarized wavelengths by a
parabolic waveform is a promising way to generate linear-frequency-modulated (LFM) …