On-Chip Reconfigurable Microwave Photonic Processor

ZHANG Weifeng; WANG Bin

doi:10.23919/cje.2020.00.273

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ZHANG Weifeng and WANG Bin, “On-Chip Reconfigurable Microwave Photonic Processor,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 334-342, 2023, doi: 10.23919/cje.2020.00.273

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ZHANG Weifeng and WANG Bin, “On-Chip Reconfigurable Microwave Photonic Processor,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 334-342, 2023, doi: 10.23919/cje.2020.00.273

ZHANG Weifeng and WANG Bin, “On-Chip Reconfigurable Microwave Photonic Processor,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 334-342, 2023, doi: 10.23919/cje.2020.00.273

Citation:

ZHANG Weifeng and WANG Bin, “On-Chip Reconfigurable Microwave Photonic Processor,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 334-342, 2023, doi: 10.23919/cje.2020.00.273

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On-Chip Reconfigurable Microwave Photonic Processor

doi: 10.23919/cje.2020.00.273

ZHANG Weifeng^{1, 2, 3, 4
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WANG Bin^{1, 2, 3, 4}

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Radar Research Lab, School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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Key Laboratory of Electronic and Information Technology in Satellite Navigation (Beijing Institute of Technology), Ministry of Education, Beijing 100081, China
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Beijing Institute of Technology Chongqing Innovation Center, Chongqing 401120, China
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Chongqing Key Laboratory of Novel Civilian Radar, Chongqing 401120, China

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Author Bio:
Weifeng ZHANG was born in Henan Province, China. He received the B.E. degree in electronic science and technology from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, in 2008, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, in 2011, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, in 2017. From June 2017 to May 2019, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the University of Ottawa. In June 2019, he joined the School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, as a Full Professor. His current research focuses on opto-electric detection and identification, including integrated microwave photonic chips, photonic computing chips, and 3D lidar imaging chips. (Email: weifeng.zhang@bit.edu.cn)

Bin WANG was born in Hunan Province, China. He received the B.E. degree in communication engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, in 2014 and the Ph.D. degree in electronic science and technology from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, 2020. From September 2018 to September 2019, he was a joint training Ph.D. student with the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada. In May 2020, he joined the School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, as an Assistant Professor. His current research interests include integrated microwave photonic chips and microwave photonic radar systems
Received Date: 2020-08-31
Accepted Date: 2022-07-18

Available Online: 2022-11-28

Publish Date: 2023-03-05

Abstract

Abstract

Microwave photonic processors leverage the modern photonics technique to process the microwave signal in the optical domain, featuring high speed and broad bandwidth. Based on discrete optical and microwave components, different microwave photonic processors are reported. Due to the limitation of the opto-electronic components, most of the realized processors are designed to serve a specific demand. With the booming development of photonic integrated circuits (PICs), new possibilities are opened for the implementation of integrated microwave photonic processors. By using the high-precision planar fabrication process, on-chip microwave photonic processors are enabled to have unprecedently full reconfigurability to perform multiple processing tasks. An overview regarding our recent work on reconfigurable microwave photonic processors is presented with an emphasis on silicon photonics integrated solutions.
- Integrated microwave photonics,
- Reconfigurable signal processor,
- Bragg grating,
- Micro-disk resonator

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