Integrated microwave photonics

D Marpaung, C Roeloffzen, R Heideman… - Laser & Photonics …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Microwave photonics (MWP) is an emerging field in which radio frequency (RF) signals are
generated, distributed, processed and analyzed using the strength of photonic techniques. It …

Long-haul analog photonics

VJ Urick, F Bucholtz, JD McKinney… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2011 - opg.optica.org
A paper on long-haul analog photonics is presented using theory and experimental results.
Various analog fiber-optic modulation formats are reviewed, including intensity modulation …

A photonic chip based frequency discriminator for a high performance microwave photonic link

D Marpaung, C Roeloffzen, A Leinse, M Hoekman - Optics express, 2010 - opg.optica.org
We report a high performance phase modulation direct detection microwave photonic link
employing a photonic chip as a frequency discriminator. The photonic chip consists of five …

Instantaneous microwave frequency measurement using few-mode fiber-based microwave photonic filters

Z Zhao, K Zhu, L Lu, C Lu - Optics express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Instantaneous frequency measurement (IFM) of microwave signals using photonic methods
provides a novel and efficient approach for fast and broadband radio frequency (RF) signal …

Foundry-enabled high-power photodetectors for microwave photonics

TC Tzu, K Sun, R Costanzo, D Ayoub… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report on arrayed germanium-on-silicon waveguide photodetectors for high-power
analog applications utilizing the AIM Photonics silicon foundry. Photodetector arrays with …

Optical sideband processing approach for highly linear phase-modulation/direct-detection microwave photonics link

J Li, YC Zhang, S Yu, W Gu - IEEE Photonics Journal, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose an optical sideband processing approach for phase-modulation direct-detection
microwave photonics link in this paper. With optical sideband processing, phase modulation …

Wideband analog photonic links: some performance limits and considerations for multi-octave implementations

VJ Urick, JF Diehl, MN Draa… - Rf and Millimeter …, 2012 - spiedigitallibrary.org
High-performance analog photonic links are discussed and the prevalent modulation
formats are highlighted. Because of its multi-octave and millimeter-wave potential, special …

Optimization of analog optical link performance: First minimize the noise figure

EI Ackerman, CH Cox - … Photonics (MWP) and the 2014 9th …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The authors have amassed the reported measured noise figure and spurious-free dynamic
range data for analog optical links operating between 1 MHz and 100 GHz. We have …

Phase-modulated analog photonic link with a high-power high-linearity photodiode

Z Yang, Q Yu, J Zang, JC Campbell… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We investigate phase-modulated analog photonic link performance using interferometric
detection with a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) under different bias conditions and a …

Linearization of phase-modulated analog optical links using a four-wave mixing comb source

A Bhatia, HF Ting, MA Foster - Optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We present a novel method for distortion elimination in phase-modulated analog optical
links. A small part of the phase modulated signal seeds a four-wave mixing comb source …