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 …

Broadband cognitive radio enabled by photonics

D Zhu, S Pan - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cognitive radio is considered as a possible disruptive force to improve the spectral resource
efficiency through sensing and interacting with the environment. Traditional electrical …

Simultaneous radar detection and frequency measurement by broadband microwave photonic processing

J Shi, F Zhang, D Ben, S Pan - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Incorporating radar detection and frequency measurement functions within a single system
is highly desirable in modern RF applications. In this article, a microwave photonic system is …

W-band simultaneous vector signal generation and radar detection based on photonic frequency quadrupling

Y Wang, J Ding, M Wang, Z Dong, F Zhao, J Yu - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we propose and experiment with a dual-functional system that can
simultaneously implement vector signal generation and radar detection based on frequency …

Photonics-assisted joint radar detection and frequency measurement system

Z Tang, M Yang, J Zhu, N Li, P Zhou - Optics Communications, 2024 - Elsevier
A photonics-assisted joint radar detection and microwave frequency measurement system is
proposed. A broadband dual-chirp linear frequency-modulated (LFM) signal is generated …

Deep neural network-assisted high-accuracy microwave instantaneous frequency measurement with a photonic scanning receiver

Y Zhou, F Zhang, J Shi, S Pan - Optics Letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
A microwave instantaneous frequency measurement system with a photonic scanning
receiver is proposed in which deep neural network (DNN)-assisted frequency estimation is …

High-resolution microwave frequency measurement based on dynamic frequency-to-power mapping

S Song, SX Chew, L Nguyen, X Yi - Optics Express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we propose a microwave frequency measurement system that simultaneously
achieves a large measurement range, high resolution, and linear frequency mapping in a …

Dual-band coherent microwave photonic radar using linear frequency modulated signals with arbitrary chirp rates

X Wang, F Cao, C Ma, Y Yang… - IEEE Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-band radars can obtain more electromagnetic scattering information of targets in
complex electromagnetic environments, but they always suffer from complex configurations …

Photonic scanning receiver for wide-range microwave frequency measurement by photonic frequency octupling and in-phase and quadrature mixing

J Shi, F Zhang, Y Zhou, S Pan, Y Wang, D Ben - Optics Letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
A photonic scanning receiver with optical frequency scanning and electrical intermediate
frequency envelope detection is proposed to implement wide-range microwave frequency …

Photonic generation of high-performance microwave frequency combs using an optically injected semiconductor laser with dual-loop optoelectronic feedback

R Zhang, P Zhou, K Li, H Bao, N Li - Optics letters, 2021 - opg.optica.org
An approach to generating microwave frequency combs (MFCs) with superior performance
is proposed and experimentally demonstrated based on an optically injected semiconductor …