Recent advances in microwave photonics

Abstract

Microwave photonics (MWP) is an interdisciplinary field that combines two different areas of microwave engineering and photonics. It has several key features by transferring signals between the optical domain and microwave domain, which leads to the advantages of broad operation bandwidth for generation, processing and distribution of microwave signals and high resolution for optical spectrum measurement. In this paper, we comprehensively review past and current status of MWP in China by introducing the representative works from most of the active MWP research groups. Future prospective is also discussed from the national strategy to key enabling technology that we have developed.

Keywords

microwave photonics (MWP) / integrated microwave photonics (IMWP) / optical analog device and system / direct modulation laser / radio over fiber / phase stabilized analog optical link / optoelectronic oscillators (OEOs) / microwave photonics filter (MPF) / arbitrary waveform generation (AWG) / optical phase locked looping (OPLL) / microwave photonics front-ends (MWP-FE) / optical vector network analyzer

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank all the colleagues who have been involved into these reported works in China and collaborated internationally. We would like to thank the supporting of the National High-Tech Research & Development Program of China (Nos. 2011AA010303, 2013AA014201 and 2011AA010305) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61177080, 61377002, 61321063 and 61090391). Ming Li was supported in part by the “Thousand Young Talent” program.

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