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International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics (MWP)

2019 International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics (MWP)

DOI: 10.1109/MWP47548.2019

7-10 Oct. 2019

Proceedings

The proceedings of this conference will be available for purchase through Curran Associates.

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MWP 2019 Plenary Speakers

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Provides an abstract of the plenary presentation and may include a brief professional biography of the presenter. The complete presentation was not made available for publication as part of the conference proceedings.Show More

MWP 2019 Table of Contents

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MWP 2019 Author Index

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Photonics for Microwave Systems

Bogoni Antonella

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The potential of photonics in the next generation RF systems for communications and sensing is summarized in this paper. Photonics will allow for an increasing interactions between networks of sensors and communications networks, both of them more and more heterogeneous, flexible and miniaturized.Show More
Recently, the optical modulation technology for millimeter-wave (MMW) signals becomes rather important owing to new MMW applications combined with photonic links: 5G/beyond-5G mobile front-haul, high-speed train communication systems, high-resolution radars, imaging for safety and security, and so on. The author has been trying to develop electro-optic modulators operating in MMW bands utilizing u...Show More
A microwave photonic architecture for jamming tolerant RF transmission of wideband 10-100 Mbps data is analyzed. Switched optical delays implement spread-spectrum encoding and sliding-window decoding of the RF-carrier phase. Any strong jammers are selectively attenuated by a frequency agnostic photonic limiter and further attenuated by the decoder and bandpass filter.Show More
Image-Reject Radio frequency (RF) receiver is the backbone of modern RF systems, but often suffers from limited bandwidth, local oscillator (LO) leakage, even-order distortion and I/Q imbalance. A wideband photonic image-reject RF receiver based on two phase-modulators (PMs) in a Sagnac loop and an I/Q balanced detector is proposed. In the experiment, excellent I/Q amplitude balance (<; 0.8 dB) an...Show More
Microwave channelization based on coherent optical frequency combs (OFCs) enables processing of ultra-wideband RF signals using low-frequency components. The channel number usually equals to the comb line number of the OFCs and the bandwidth for the microwave input is determined by the frequency spacing of the OFCs. However, the generation of coherent OFCs with large comb lines and large frequency...Show More
We calculate the impact of nonlinearity in a modified uni-traveling carrier (MUTC) photodetector on an RF-modulated frequency comb that is generated using short optical pulses. We take into account bleaching (nonlinear saturation), which plays an important role due to the large peak-to-average power ratio. Nonlinear impairment of an RF-modulated continuous wave is characterized by the second- and ...Show More

Neuromorphic Photonics for RF Signal Processing

Mable P. Fok

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Neuromorphic photonics use light to imitate the neural models and systems of nature for solving complex human problems that are challenging for conventional electronic approaches. Neural algorithms are natural designs that govern the survival of the organism, therefore, are highly effective for the designated tasks. In this paper, we review two small-scale neural algorithms - spike timing dependen...Show More
In this paper, we report a phase-sensitive photonic THz two-tone self-mixing imaging system, comprising a self-developed vertical illuminated triple transit region photodiode (TTR-PD) and a commercial square law Schottky barrier diode as THz emitter and THz detector, respectively. Using the two-tone self-mixing approach, the phase information of a device-under-test can be extracted by down-mixing ...Show More
A dual-band millimeter-wave integrated photoreceiver was designed and fabricated. It consisted of a broadband photodetector and a dual narrowband amplifier. It was characterized by good flatness of ±1 dB in frequency response, high optical-to-electrical conversion efficiency, and high P1dB > +4 dBm at both 63 and 99 GHz. The detailed performance of the photoreceiver and its demonstration on radio ...Show More
In this paper, a wideband high-power photonicallydriven integrated electromagnetic emitter is proposed with operation from W-band through G-band (75 GHz to 220 GHz). The wideband and high-power behaviors are achieved by integrating a high-power charge-compensated modified unitravelling carrier (CC-MUTC) photodiode (PD) with a high-directivity two-arm sinuous antenna. The PD with a diameter of 5 μm...Show More
A photonics-based integrated communication and radar system is proposed and demonstrated by encoding an amplitude shift keying (ASK) modulation signal onto an linear frequency modulated continuous wave (LFMCW) radar signal. In the experiment, communication rate of 100 Mbit/s is achieved and inverse synthetic aperture radar imaging is demonstrated with a 2D resolution as high as~1.8 cm × 2.0 cm.Show More
The emerging photonics-based radar breaks the bandwidth limitations of traditional radar, making it possible to achieve a high range resolution. While, the angular resolution of a photonics-based radar is still limited by the size of its equivalent aperture. To achieve both high range and angular resolution, we propose a super-resolution radar detection method that is achieved by a photonics-based...Show More
We demonstrate on-chip frequency comb generation using cascaded electro-optic Mach-Zehnder modulators in silicon photonics. Our on-chip frequency comb produces 9 lines with a frequency spacing of 6.67 GHz and an amplitude variation <; 3 dB.Show More
Photonic Doppler frequency shift (DFS) measurement based on an integrated silicon photonic chip, which contains two cascaded dual-drive-Mach-Zehnder modulators (DDMZMs) and a photodetector (PD), is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The reference signal is applied to the first DDMZM, while the transmission signal and the echo signal are injected into the second DDMZM through a differential ...Show More
Frequency drift of a conventional microwave photonic filter is due to relative frequency fluctuation between optical carrier and photonic filter, which hinders its practical application. In this paper, a method based on difference scheme for suppressing frequency drift of integrated microwave photonic filters is proposed. By utilizing an on-chip high-Q Si3N4 microring resonator as a frequency moni...Show More
Optical sampling of pseudo random microwave signals with sinc-shaped Nyquist pulse sequences has been demonstrated in an integrated silicon photonics platform. An electronic-photonic, co-integrated depletion type silicon intensity modulator with high extinction ratio has been used to sample the microwave signal with a sampling rate, which corresponds to three times its RF bandwidth. Thus, a sampli...Show More

Proceedings

The proceedings of this conference will be available for purchase through Curran Associates.

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