Abstract
Broadband and low loss capability of photonics has led to an ever-increasing
interest in its use for the generation, processing, control and distribution
of microwave and millimeter-wave signals for applications such as broadband
wireless access networks, sensor networks, radar, satellite communitarians,
instrumentation and warfare systems. In this tutorial, techniques developed
in the last few years in microwave photonics are reviewed with an emphasis
on the systems architectures for photonic generation and processing of microwave
signals, photonic true-time delay beamforming, radio-over-fiber systems, and
photonic analog-to-digital conversion. Challenges in system implementation
for practical applications and new areas of research in microwave photonics
are also discussed.
© 2009 IEEE
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