Guest Editorial Special Issue on Microwave Photonics

Lawrence R. Chen, Ivana Gasulla, Ming Li, and Jason D. Mckinney

J. Lightwave Technol. 38(19), 5238-5239 (2020)  View: PDF

Tunable THz Signal Generation and Radio-Over-Fiber Link Based on an Optoelectronic Oscillator-Driven Optical Frequency Comb

G. K. M. Hasanuzzaman, Haymen Shams, Cyril C. Renaud, John Mitchell, Alwyn J. Seeds, and Stavros Iezekiel

J. Lightwave Technol. 38(19), 5240-5247 (2020)  View: PDF

Microwave Filtering Using Forward Brillouin Scattering in Photonic-Phononic Emit-Receive Devices

Shai Gertler, Eric A. Kittlaus, Nils T. Otterstrom, Prashanta Kharel, and Peter T. Rakich

J. Lightwave Technol. 38(19), 5248-5261 (2020)  View: PDF

Wideband and Dispersion Immune Microwave Photonic Phase Shifter With Tunable Optical Carrier to Sideband Ratio

Yunping Bai, Mingzheng Lei, Zhennan Zheng, Jinwang Qian, Xiyao Song, Zhonghan Su, Xinlu Gao, and Shanguo Huang

J. Lightwave Technol. 38(19), 5262-5269 (2020)  View: PDF

Polarization Manipulated Fourier Domain Mode-Locked Optoelectronic Oscillator

Sha Zhu, Xiao Jie Fan, Bo Rui Xu, Wen Hui Sun, Ming Li, Ning Hua Zhu, and Wei Li

J. Lightwave Technol. 38(19), 5270-5277 (2020)  View: PDF

Self-Forced Opto-Electronic Oscillators Using Sagnac-Loop PM-IM Convertor

Kai Wei and Afshin S. Daryoush

J. Lightwave Technol. 38(19), 5278-5285 (2020)  View: PDF

Fabrication and Characterization of Femtosecond Laser Induced Microwave Frequency Photonic Fiber Grating

Baokai Cheng, Yang Song, Liwei Hua, and Hai Xiao

J. Lightwave Technol. 38(19), 5286-5292 (2020)  View: PDF

Ultrasound Measurement Using On-Chip Optical Micro-Resonators and Digital Optical Frequency Comb

Jingcui Song, Jingshun Pan, Lei Wan, Zhenshi Chen, Ying Zhu, Zelin Yang, Yujie Chen, Mingjie Zhang, Xingwen Yi, and Zhaohui Li

J. Lightwave Technol. 38(19), 5293-5301 (2020)  View: PDF

Performance Enhancement of Optical Comb Based Microwave Photonic Filter by Machine Learning Technique

Run-Kai Shiu, You-Wei Chen, Peng-Chun Peng, Justin Chiu, Qi Zhou, Tsu-Lin Chang, Shuyi Shen, Jyun-Wei Li, and Gee-Kung Chang

J. Lightwave Technol. 38(19), 5302-5310 (2020)  View: PDF

Multi-Beamforming Provided by Dual-Wavelength True Time Delay PIC and Multicore Fiber

Maria Morant, Ailee Trinidad, Eduward Tangdiongga, Ton Koonen, and Roberto Llorente

J. Lightwave Technol. 38(19), 5311-5317 (2020)  View: PDF

A Review: Neural-Inspired Photonic Functional Systems for Dynamic RF Signal Processing

Mable P. Fok

J. Lightwave Technol. 38(19), 5318-5326 (2020)  View: PDF

Frequency-Tunable Parity-Time-Symmetric Optoelectronic Oscillator Using a Polarization-Dependent Sagnac Loop

Zheng Dai, Zhiqiang Fan, Peng Li, and Jianping Yao

J. Lightwave Technol. 38(19), 5327-5332 (2020)  View: PDF

Passband-Switchable and Frequency-Tunable Dual-Passband Microwave Photonic Filter

Zhejing Jiao and Jianping Yao

J. Lightwave Technol. 38(19), 5333-5338 (2020)  View: PDF

Microwave Photonics for Remote Sensing: From Basic Concepts to High-Level Functionalities

Giovanni Serafino, Salvatore Maresca, Claudio Porzi, Filippo Scotti, Paolo Ghelfi, and Antonella Bogoni

J. Lightwave Technol. 38(19), 5339-5355 (2020)  View: PDF

Photonics-Based Real-Time Spectrogram Analysis of Broadband Waveforms

Saikrishna Reddy Konatham, Hugues Guillet de Chatellus, and José Azaña

J. Lightwave Technol. 38(19), 5356-5367 (2020)  View: PDF

Multi-User V-Band Uplink Using a Massive MIMO Antenna and a Fiber-Wireless IFoF Fronthaul for 5G mmWave Small-Cells

Eugenio Ruggeri, Apostolos Tsakyridis, Christos Vagionas, Yigal Leiba, George Kalfas, Nikos Pleros, and Amalia Miliou

J. Lightwave Technol. 38(19), 5368-5374 (2020)  View: PDF

Modulation and Switching Architecture Performances for Frequency Up-Conversion of Complex-Modulated Data Signals Based on a SOA-MZI Photonic Sampling Mixer

Dimitrios Kastritsis, Thierry Rampone, Kyriakos E. Zoiros, and Ammar Sharaiha

J. Lightwave Technol. 38(19), 5375-5385 (2020)  View: PDF

A Silicon Photonic Switching Platform for Flexible Converged Centralized-Radio Access Networking

Colm Browning, Qixiang Cheng, Nathan C. Abrams, Marco Ruffini, Liang Yuan Dai, Liam P. Barry, and Keren Bergman

J. Lightwave Technol. 38(19), 5386-5392 (2020)  View: PDF

Controlling Rayleigh-Backscattering-Induced Distortion in Radio Over Fiber Systems for Radioastronomic Applications

Jacopo Nanni, Andrea Giovannini, Muhammad Usman Hadi, Enrico Lenzi, Simone Rusticelli, Randall Wayth, Federico Perini, Jader Monari, and Giovanni Tartarini

J. Lightwave Technol. 38(19), 5393-5405 (2020)  View: PDF

Wideband Frequency-Tunable Parity-Time Symmetric Optoelectronic Oscillator Based on Hybrid Phase and Intensity Modulations

Caihong Teng, Xihua Zou, Peixuan Li, Wei Pan, and Lianshan Yan

J. Lightwave Technol. 38(19), 5406-5411 (2020)  View: PDF

Towards a Scaleable 5G Fronthaul: Analog Radio-over-Fiber and Space Division Multiplexing

Simon Rommel, Delphin Dodane, Evangelos Grivas, Bruno Cimoli, Jerome Bourderionnet, Gilles Feugnet, Alvaro Morales, Evangelos Pikasis, Chris Roeloffzen, Paul van Dijk, Michail Katsikis, Konstantinos Ntontin, Dimitrios Kritharidis, Izabela Spaleniak, Paul Mitchell, Mykhaylo Dubov, Juliana Barros Carvalho, and Idelfonso Tafur Monroy

J. Lightwave Technol. 38(19), 5412-5422 (2020)  View: PDF

Period-One Microwave Photonic Sensing by a Laser Diode With Optical Feedback

Bairun Nie, Yuxi Ruan, Yanguang Yu, Qinghua Guo, Jiangtao Xi, and Jun Tong

J. Lightwave Technol. 38(19), 5423-5429 (2020)  View: PDF

A Computationally Efficient Integrated Coupled Opto-Electronic Oscillator Model

Lars Nielsen and Martijn J. R. Heck

J. Lightwave Technol. 38(19), 5430-5439 (2020)  View: PDF

High-Resolution Optical Microresonator-Based Sensor Enabled by Microwave Photonic Sidebands Processing

Xiaoyi Tian, Keith Powell, Liwei Li, Suen Xin Chew, Xiaoke Yi, Linh Nguyen, and Robert A. Minasian

J. Lightwave Technol. 38(19), 5440-5449 (2020)  View: PDF

Microwave Photonic Radars

Shilong Pan and Yamei Zhang

J. Lightwave Technol. 38(19), 5450-5484 (2020)  View: PDF

Millimeter-Wave-Band Electro-Optic Modulators Using Antenna-Coupled Electrodes for Microwave Photonic Applications

Hiroshi Murata

J. Lightwave Technol. 38(19), 5485-5491 (2020)  View: PDF

Optical Spectral Slicing Based Reconfigurable and Tunable Microwave Photonic Filter

Ling Liu, Xian Jin, Tigang Ning, Lawrence R. Chen, and José Capmany

J. Lightwave Technol. 38(19), 5492-5499 (2020)  View: PDF

Reconfigurable Identical and Complementary Chirp Dual-LFM Signal Generation Subjected to Dual-Beam Injection in a DFB Laser

Hao Chen, Pei Zhou, Limin Zhang, Snehi Bassi, Bikash Nakarmi, and Shilong Pan

J. Lightwave Technol. 38(19), 5500-5508 (2020)  View: PDF

Photonic-Assisted Regenerative Microwave Frequency Divider With a Tunable Division Factor

Shaochen Duan, Baohang Mo, Xudong Wang, Erwin H. W. Chan, Xinhuan Feng, Bai-Ou Guan, and Jianping Yao

J. Lightwave Technol. 38(19), 5509-5516 (2020)  View: PDF

Microcomb Source Based on InP DFB / Si₃N₄ Microring Butt-Coupling

Sylvain Boust, Houssein El Dirani, Laurène Youssef, Yannick Robert, Alexandre Larrue, Camille Petit-Etienne, Eric Vinet, Sébastien Kerdiles, Erwine Pargon, Mickaël Faugeron, Marc Vallet, François Duport, Corrado Sciancalepore, and Frédéric van Dijk

J. Lightwave Technol. 38(19), 5517-5525 (2020)  View: PDF

High-Power Microwave Generation Through Distributed Optical Amplification Into a Photodiode Array on an Open Indium Phosphide Platform

Peter L. Tønning and Martijn J. R. Heck

J. Lightwave Technol. 38(19), 5526-5535 (2020)  View: PDF

High-Performance Fully Integrated Silicon Photonic Microwave Mixer Subsystems

Christian G. Bottenfield and Stephen E. Ralph

J. Lightwave Technol. 38(19), 5536-5545 (2020)  View: PDF

Improved RF Interference Suppression Method

Edward I. Ackerman and Charles H. Cox III

J. Lightwave Technol. 38(19), 5546-5550 (2020)  View: PDF

Integrated Discretely Tunable Optical Delay Line Based on Step-Chirped Subwavelength Grating Waveguide Bragg Gratings

Hao Sun, Yue Wang, and Lawrence R. Chen

J. Lightwave Technol. 38(19), 5551-5560 (2020)  View: PDF