Integrated silicon photonics for enabling next-generation space systems

GN Tzintzarov, SG Rao, JD Cressler - Photonics, 2021 - mdpi.com
A review of silicon photonics for space applications is presented. The benefits and
advantages of size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) metrics inherent to silicon photonics …

High-performance dual-band radio-over-fiber link for future 5G radio access applications

F Shi, Y Fan, X Wang, W Zhang, Y Gao - Journal of Optical …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
For the fronthaul between the baseband unit and the remote radio unit (RRU), radio over
fiber (RoF) is promising to replace the Common Public Radio Interface in beyond fifth …

Image-free microwave photonic down-conversion approach for fiber-optic antenna remoting

P Li, W Pan, X Zou, B Lu, L Yan… - IEEE Journal of Quantum …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For commercial and military applications, it is highly desired to acquire broadband radio
frequency (RF) signals from remotely located receiving antennas to the central office (CO) …

Fast self-adaptive generic digital linearization for analog microwave photonic systems

P Li, W Pan, X Zou, W Bai, Y Pan… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Developing generic and self-adaptive methods to alleviate the nonlinearity issues remain of
high importance for various microwave photonic (MWP) systems. Here, we propose and …

Ku-band analog photonic down-conversion link with coherent I/Q image rejection and digital linearization

Y Gao, H Chi, J Dai, K Xu - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Analog photonic down-conversion links have been widely used in radar, electronic warfare,
and satellite communication systems. Aiming at the optimization demands of the link …

Concurrent photonic measurement of angle-of-arrival and chirp rate of microwave LFM signal

S Li, H Cao, X Zheng - Chinese Optics Letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
A photonic approach to concurrently measure the angle-of-arrival (AOA) and the chirp rate of
a linear frequency modulated (LFM) signal is proposed and experimentally demonstrated …

Microwave photonic mixer with large mixing spurs suppression and high RF/LO isolation

Y Wang, J Xu, D Wang, T Zhou, D Yang, X Zhong… - Optik, 2018 - Elsevier
A microwave photonic single sideband mixer based on a dual-polarization dual-parallel
Mach-Zehnder modulator (DP-DPMZM) modulator is proposed. A radio frequency (RF) …

Linearization for Microwave Photonic SEFDM Transmission Systems Based on Random Displacement of Constellation Points

Y Chen, Y Chen - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A linearization method for microwave photonic (MWP) spectrally efficient frequency-division
multiplexing (SEFDM) transmission systems is proposed to compensate for the inherent inter …

A Reconfigurable Local Oscillator Harmonic Mixer with Simultaneous Phase Shifting and Image Rejection

B Wu, C Zheng, H Zhang, Q Zhao - Electronics, 2024 - mdpi.com
The multibeam high-throughput satellites (HTS) are regarded as a crucial component in the
forthcoming space-based Internet of Things (S-IoT) network. The multi-band frequency …

Optically tunable microwave frequency downconversion based on an optoelectronic oscillator employing a phase-shifted fiber Bragg grating

Y Ma, Z Zhang, J Yuan, Z Zeng, S Zhang… - IEEE Photonics …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate an approach to achieve optically tunable microwave frequency
downconversion based on an optoelectronic oscillator (OEO) incorporating a tunable …