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 generation of microwave arbitrary waveforms

J Yao - Optics Communications, 2011 - Elsevier
In this paper, techniques to generate microwave arbitrary waveforms based on all-fiber
solutions are reviewed, with an emphasis on the system architectures based on direct space …

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 …

Principle and recent development in photonic time-stretch imaging

G Wang, Y Zhou, R Min, E Du, C Wang - Photonics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Inspiring development in optical imaging enables great applications in the science and
engineering industry, especially in the medical imaging area. Photonic time-stretch imaging …

Optical time-stretch imaging: Principles and applications

C Lei, B Guo, Z Cheng, K Goda - Applied Physics Reviews, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Breathtaking innovations in optical imaging have opened new exciting avenues for science,
industry, and medicine over the last few decades. One of such innovations is optical time …

All-optical central-frequency-programmable and bandwidth-tailorable radar

W Zou, H Zhang, X Long, S Zhang, Y Cui, J Chen - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Radar has been widely used for military, security and rescue purposes and modern radar
should be reconfigurable at multi-bands and have programmable central frequencies and …

Photonic generation of wideband chirped microwave waveforms

H Chi, C Wang, J Yao - IEEE journal of microwaves, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A chirped microwave waveform with a large time-bandwidth product (TBWP) can find
important applications in modern radar systems and microwave imaging systems …

Dispersive Fourier transformation for versatile microwave photonics applications

C Wang - Photonics, 2014 - mdpi.com
Dispersive Fourier transformation (DFT) maps the broadband spectrum of an ultrashort
optical pulse into a time stretched waveform with its intensity profile mirroring the spectrum …

All-optical switching in Sagnac loop mirror containing an ytterbium-doped fiber and fiber Bragg grating

Z Zang - Applied Optics, 2013 - opg.optica.org
A configuration of all-optical switching based on a Signac loop mirror that incorporates an
ytterbium-doped fiber and uniform fiber Bragg grating (FBG) is proposed in this paper. It is …

Dual-band LFM signal generation by optical frequency quadrupling and polarization multiplexing

Q Guo, F Zhang, P Zhou, S Pan - IEEE Photonics Technology …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A photonic approach to generating dual-band linear frequency modulation (LFM) signal is
proposed based on optical frequency quadrupling and polarization multiplexing. This is …