Microwave Photonic Signal Processing and Sensing Based on Optical Filtering
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Abstract
Microwave photonics, based on optical filtering techniques, are attractive for wideband signal processing and high-performance sensing applications, since it brings significant benefits to the fields by overcoming inherent limitations in electronic approaches and by providing immunity to electromagnetic interference. Recent developments in optical filtering based microwave photonics techniques are presented in this paper. We present single sideband modulation schemes to eliminate dispersion induced power fading in microwave optical links and to provide high-resolution spectral characterization functions, single passband microwave photonic filters to address the challenges of eliminating the spectral periodicity in microwave photonic signal processors, and review the approaches for high-performance sensing through implementing microwave photonics filters or optoelectronic oscillators to enhance measurement resolution.
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OpenAlex topics: Advanced Photonic Communication Systems · Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies · Photonic and Optical Devices
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School of Electrical and Information Engineering, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Funding
Australian Research Council · Department of Defence, Australian Government
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