Microwave Photonics

ELG7100 Fall 2018

Jianping Yao
Microwave Photonics Research Laboratory
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Ottawa
Introduction to Microwave Photonics

Microwave Photonics (RF Photonics) is an interdisciplinary field that

combines microwave engineering and photonics technology, to study
the generation, processing, control, and transmission of
microwave signals by means of photonics for applications such as
wireless communications, radar, sensing, imaging, and
instrumentation.

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Advantages using photonics

 High frequency (tens of GHz up to THz)

 Wide bandwidth
 Low loss (fiber loss 0.2 dB/km, copper cable
360dB/km)
 Large tunability (a few to hundreds of GHz)
 Immune to electromagnetic interference (EMI)

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Application examples

The Atacama Large Millimeter Antenna (ALMA) Array

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 What is Microwave Photonics (MWP)?
Large TBWP
Modulators CW lasers delay line
Pulsed
lasers High-speed
sampling
Photo-
detectors

Optical
MWP Photonic ADCs

Wideband
Local
front end
amplifiers oscillators
Signal
High Q processors
Tunable True time delay
resonators
filters beamforming
Channelizer Antenna
Nonlinear Gratings
Radio over remoting
fibers
Signal fiber
generation

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Topics to cover

 Photonic devices
 Microwave photonic signal processing
 Microwave photonic signal generation
 Photonic microwave arbitrary waveform generation
 Microwave photonic links (radio over fiber)
 True time delay phased array beamforming
 Photonics Analog-to-Digital Conversion (ADC)
 Integrated Microwave photonics (InP and Si based)

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ELG7100 Microwave Photonics – Fall 2018

Schedule:
Lecture 1 Monday 14:30 - 16:00 STE F0126
Lecture 2 Wednesday 14:30 - 16:00 MNT 103

Evaluation scheme:
30% Assignments (3 assignments)
50% Midterm Exam (1.5 hours exam)
20% Project Report