Guest Editorial: Microwave Photonics

Jianping Yao, Xihua Zou, Hongwei Chen, and José Capmany

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4216-4218 (2018)  View: PDF

Coherent Optical RF Channelizer With Large Instantaneous Bandwidth and Large In-Band Interference Suppression

Zhenzhou Tang, Dan Zhu, and Shilong Pan

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4219-4226 (2018)  View: PDF

Photonic Generation of Neuron-Like Dynamics Using VCSELs Subject to Double Polarized Optical Injection

Shuiying Xiang, Yahui Zhang, Xingxing Guo, Aijun Wen, and Yue Hao

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4227-4234 (2018)  View: PDF

Design and Analysis of Waveguide-Coupled Photonic THz Transmitters With an Extremely Wide Fractional Bandwidth

Nan-Wei Chen, Jhih-Min Wun, Hao-Chen Wang, Rui-Lin Chao, Christopher Koh, Cooper H. Dreyfus, and Jin-Wei Shi

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4235-4242 (2018)  View: PDF

High-Speed and High-Resolution Interrogation of a Silicon Photonic Microdisk Sensor Based on Microwave Photonic Filtering

Hong Deng, Weifeng Zhang, and Jianping Yao

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4243-4249 (2018)  View: PDF

A Novel THz Half-Wave Polarization Converter for Cross-Polarization Conversions of Both Linear and Circular Polarizations and Polarization Conversion Ratio Regulating by Graphene

Lin Peng, Xiao-Feng Li, Xing Jiang, and Si-Min Li

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4250-4258 (2018)  View: PDF

An Electrooptic Chaotic System Based on a Hybrid Feedback Loop

Mengfan Cheng, Chenkun Luo, Xingxing Jiang, Lei Deng, Minming Zhang, Changjian Ke, Songnian Fu, Ming Tang, Ping Shum, and Deming Liu

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4259-4266 (2018)  View: PDF

Compact Phase Detector for Optical-Microwave Synchronization Using Polarization Modulation

Juan Wei, Shuangyou Zhang, Jungwon Kim, and Shilong Pan

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4267-4272 (2018)  View: PDF

Microwave Frequency Generation, Switching, and Controlling Using Single-Mode FP-LDs

Bikash Nakarmi, Hao Chen, Yong Hyub Won, and Shilong Pan

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4273-4281 (2018)  View: PDF

Quasi-Color-Free LD-Based Long-Reach 28-GHz MMWoF With 512-QAM OFDM

Zu-Kai Weng, Yu-Chieh Chi, Hsuan-Yun Kao, Cheng-Ting Tsai, Huai-Yung Wang, and Gong-Ru Lin

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4282-4297 (2018)  View: PDF

IIR Microwave Photonic Filters Based on Homogeneous Multicore Fibers

Liang Huo, Lin Gan, Li Shen, Ming Tang, Songnian Fu, Chen Yang, and Weijun Tong

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4298-4304 (2018)  View: PDF

A Simple Envelope-Assisted RF/IF Digital Predistortion Model for Broadband RoF Fronthaul Transmission

Weijie Tang, Ming Hui, Taijun Liu, Dongya Shen, and Xiupu Zhang

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4305-4311 (2018)  View: PDF

A Continuously Tunable Sub-Gigahertz Microwave Photonic Bandpass Filter Based on an Ultra-High-Q Silicon Microring Resonator

Huaqing Qiu, Feng Zhou, Jinran Qie, Yuhan Yao, Xiao Hu, Yuguang Zhang, Xi Xiao, Yuan Yu, Jianji Dong, and Xinliang Zhang

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4312-4318 (2018)  View: PDF

Wideband Microwave Phase Noise Analyzer Based on an All-Optical Microwave I/Q Mixer

Jingzhan Shi, Fangzheng Zhang, De Ben, and Shilong Pan

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4319-4325 (2018)  View: PDF

Electrical Probing Test for Characterizing Wideband Optical Transceiving Devices with Self-Reference and On-Chip Capability

Shangjian Zhang, Heng Wang, Xinhai Zou, Chong Zhang, Yali Zhang, Zhiyao Zhang, Yong Liu, Jon D. Peters, and John E. Bowers

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4326-4336 (2018)  View: PDF

Microwave Photonics for Featured Applications in High-Speed Railways: Communications, Detection, and Sensing

Xihua Zou, Wenlin Bai, Wei Chen, Peixuan Li, Bing Lu, Ge Yu, Wei Pan, Bin Luo, Lianshan Yan, and Liyang Shao

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4337-4346 (2018)  View: PDF

Stabilization of Photonic Microwave Generation in Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers With Optical Injection and Feedback

Songkun Ji, Chenpeng Xue, Angel Valle, Paul S. Spencer, Hongqiang Li, and Yanhua Hong

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4347-4353 (2018)  View: PDF

Analog Radio-Over-Fiber Supported Increased RAU Spacing for 60 GHz Distributed MIMO Employing Spatial Diversity and Multiplexing

Usman Habib, Anthony E. Aighobahi, Terence Quinlan, Stuart D. Walker, and Nathan J. Gomes

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4354-4360 (2018)  View: PDF

Link Performance Optimization of Chip-Based Si₃N₄ Microwave Photonic Filters

Yang Liu, David Marpaung, Amol Choudhary, Jason Hotten, and Benjamin J. Eggleton

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4361-4370 (2018)  View: PDF

Modelling Nonlinearities in RF Photonic Links

Nicholas J. Frigo, Meredith N. Hutchinson, and Caitlin R. S. Williams

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4371-4378 (2018)  View: PDF

Narrow-Linewidth Microwave Generation by Optoelectronic Oscillators With AlGaInAs/InP Microcavity Lasers

Yue-De Yang, Ming-Long Liao, Jun-Yuan Han, Hai-Zhong Weng, Jin-Long Xiao, and Yong-Zhen Huang

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4379-4385 (2018)  View: PDF

Terahertz Tag Using Photonic-Crystal Slabs

Yusuke Kujime, Masayuki Fujita, and Tadao Nagatsuma

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4386-4392 (2018)  View: PDF

Fast Incoherent OFDR Interrogation of FBG Arrays Using Sparse Radio Frequency Responses

Juan Clement Bellido, Javier Hervás Peralta, Javier Madrigal Madrigal, Haroldo Maestre Vicente, Germán Torregrosa Penalva, Carlos Rodríguez Fernández-Pousa, and Salvador Sales Maicas

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4393-4400 (2018)  View: PDF

Wide Band Terahertz Switch of Undulated Waveguide With VO₂ Film Coated Inner Wall

Kun Zhang, Lu Zhang, Di Duan, Ya-Xian Fan, and Zhi-Yong Tao

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4401-4407 (2018)  View: PDF

Photonic Generation and Transmission of Linearly Chirped Microwave Pulses With High TBWP by Self-Heterodyne Technique

Luis Ernesto Ynoquio Herrera, Ricardo M. Ribeiro, Vladimir B. Jabulka, Pedro Tovar, and Jean Pierre von der Weid

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4408-4415 (2018)  View: PDF

Photonics-Based Millimeter-Wave Band Remote Beamforming of Array-Antenna Integrated With Photodiode Using Variable Optical Delay Line and Attenuator

Tatsuya Nagayama, Shigeyuki Akiba, Takashi Tomura, and Jiro Hirokawa

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4416-4422 (2018)  View: PDF

A 0–40 GHz RF Tunable Receiver Based on Photonic Direct Conversion and Digital Feed-Forward Lasers Noise Cancellation

Daniel Onori, Paolo Ghelfi, José Azaña, and Antonella Bogoni

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4423-4429 (2018)  View: PDF

VCSEL-Based Radio-Over-G652 Fiber System for Short-/Medium-Range MFH Solutions

Jacopo Nanni, Jean-Luc Polleux, Catherine Algani, Simone Rusticelli, Federico Perini, and Giovanni Tartarini

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4430-4437 (2018)  View: PDF

III-V-on-Silicon Photonic Transceivers for Radio-Over-Fiber Links

K. Van Gasse, J. Van Kerrebrouck, A. Abbasi, J. Verbist, G. Torfs, B. Moeneclaey, G. Morthier, X. Yin, J. Bauwelinck, and G. Roelkens

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4438-4444 (2018)  View: PDF

Passive Opto-Antenna as Downlink Remote Antenna Unit for Radio Frequency Over Fiber

Olivier Caytan, Laurens Bogaert, Haolin Li, Joris Van Kerrebrouck, Sam Lemey, Guy Torfs, Johan Bauwelinck, Piet Demeester, Sam Agneessens, Dries Vande Ginste, and Hendrik Rogier

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4445-4459 (2018)  View: PDF

High-Capacity Dynamic Indoor All-Optical-Wireless Communication System Backed up With Millimeter-Wave Radio Techniques

Ketemaw Addis Mekonnen, Eduward Tangdiongga, and A. M. J. Koonen

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4460-4467 (2018)  View: PDF

Integration of a GFDM-Based 5G Transceiver in a GPON Using Radio Over Fiber Technology

Ramon Maia Borges, Tiago Reis Rufino Marins, Matheus Sêda Borsato Cunha, Hugo Rodrigues Dias Filgueiras, Igor Feliciano da Costa, Regivan N. da Silva, Danilo Henrique Spadoti, Luciano Leonel Mendes, and Arismar Cerqueira Sodré

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4468-4477 (2018)  View: PDF

Compressive k-Space Tomography

Dylan D. Ross, Janusz Murakowski, Conor J. Ryan, Garrett J. Schneider, and Dennis W. Prather

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4478-4485 (2018)  View: PDF

High-Capacity Optical Wireless Communication Using Two-Dimensional IR Beam Steering

Ton Koonen, Fausto Gomez-Agis, Frans Huijskens, Ketemaw Addis Mekonnen, Zizheng Cao, and Eduward Tangdiongga

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4486-4493 (2018)  View: PDF

Photonic Integrated Microwave Phase Shifter up to the mm-Wave Band With Fast Response Time in Silicon-on-Insulator Technology

Claudio Porzi, Giovanni Serafino, Marc Sans, Fabio Falconi, Vito Sorianello, Sergio Pinna, John E. Mitchell, Marco Romagnoli, Antonella Bogoni, and Paolo Ghelfi

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4494-4500 (2018)  View: PDF

Proposal and Demonstration of Subcarrier Index Modulation OFDM for RoF System With Enhanced Spectral Efficiency

Tang Tang, Xihua Zou, Peixuan Li, Wei Pan, Bin Luo, and Lianshan Yan

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4501-4506 (2018)  View: PDF

60-GHz Transmission Link Using Uni-Traveling Carrier Photodiodes at the Transmitter and the Receiver

Ahmad Wasfi Mohammad, Haymen Shams, Chin-Pang Liu, Chris Graham, Michele Natrella, Alwyn J. Seeds, and Cyril C. Renaud

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4507-4513 (2018)  View: PDF

Stable Downlinks for Wideband Radio Frequencies in Distributed Noncooperative System

Zhiyu Chen, Tao Zhou, Xin Zhong, Jingxian Liu, Maowen Wang, and Jia Ye

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4514-4518 (2018)  View: PDF

Broadband RF Channelizer Based on an Integrated Optical Frequency Kerr Comb Source

Xingyuan Xu, Jiayang Wu, Thach G. Nguyen, Sai Tak Chu, Brent E. Little, Roberto Morandotti, Arnan Mitchell, and David J. Moss

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4519-4526 (2018)  View: PDF

Single Sideband Signals for Phase Noise Mitigation in Wireless THz-Over-Fibre Systems

Luis Gonzalez-Guerrero, Haymen Shams, Irshaad Fatadin, Martyn J. Fice, Mira Naftaly, Alwyn J. Seeds, and Cyril C. Renaud

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4527-4534 (2018)  View: PDF

Self-Oscillating Optical Frequency Comb: Application to Low Phase Noise Millimeter Wave Generation and Radio-Over-Fiber Link

G. K. M. Hasanuzzaman, Atsushi Kanno, Pham Tien Dat, and Stavros Iezekiel

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4535-4542 (2018)  View: PDF

Distributed Measurement of Polarization Mode Coupling in Polarization Maintaining Fibers Using Microwave Photonic Filter Technique

Ruolin Liao, Ming Tang, Songnian Fu, and Deming Liu

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4543-4548 (2018)  View: PDF

A Unified System With Integrated Generation of High-Speed Communication and High-Resolution Sensing Signals Based on THz Photonics

Shi Jia, Shiwei Wang, Kexin Liu, Xiaodan Pang, Hangkai Zhang, Xiaofeng Jin, Shilie Zheng, Hao Chi, Xianmin Zhang, and Xianbin Yu

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4549-4556 (2018)  View: PDF

Tunable Single-Passband Microwave Photonic Filter Based on Integrated Optical Double Notch Filter

Shijie Song, Suen Xin Chew, Xiaoke Yi, Linh Nguyen, and Robert A. Minasian

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4557-4564 (2018)  View: PDF

Toward Monolithic Integration of OEOs: From Systems to Chips

Tengfei Hao, Jian Tang, David Domenech, Wei Li, Ninghua Zhu, José Capmany, and Ming Li

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4565-4582 (2018)  View: PDF

Fast Tunable Photonic Single-Bandpass RF Filter With Multiple Arbitrary Switching Flat-Top Passbands

Peixuan Li, Wei Pan, Xihua Zou, Bing Lu, and Lianshan Yan

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4583-4590 (2018)  View: PDF

Programmable True Time Delay Lines Using Integrated Waveguide Meshes

Daniel Pérez-López, Erica Sánchez, and José Capmany

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4591-4601 (2018)  View: PDF

Gain-Switched Optical Frequency Combs for Future Mobile Radio-Over-Fiber Millimeter-Wave Systems

Colm Browning, Hamza Hallak Elwan, Eamonn P. Martin, Sean O’Duill, Julien Poette, Paul Sheridan, Arman Farhang, Beatrice Cabon, and Liam P. Barry

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4602-4610 (2018)  View: PDF

Low-Coherence Interferometry Using Microwave Photonics for Multilayered Samples

Jesús Benítez and Jose Mora

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4611-4617 (2018)  View: PDF

Highly Efficient Optical Beam Steering Using an In-Fiber Diffraction Grating for Full Duplex Indoor Optical Wireless Communication

Guoqing Wang, Usman Habib, Zhijun Yan, Nathan J. Gomes, Qingmei Sui, Jun-Bo Wang, Lin Zhang, and Chao Wang

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4618-4625 (2018)  View: PDF

Monolithically Integrated Microwave Frequency Synthesizer on InP Generic Foundry Platform

Mu-Chieh Lo, Alberto Zarzuelo, Robinson Guzmán, and Guillermo Carpintero

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4626-4632 (2018)  View: PDF

Vector Modulation by Laser and Electroabsorption Modulator With Digital Pre-Coding and Pre-Compensation

Ukrit Mankong, Praimezt Mekbungwan, Keizo Inagaki, and Tetsuya Kawanishi

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4633-4639 (2018)  View: PDF

Photonic Integrated Circuit-Based FMCW Coherent LiDAR

Aude Martin, Delphin Dodane, Luc Leviandier, Daniel Dolfi, Alan Naughton, Peter O’Brien, Thijs Spuessens, Roel Baets, Guy Lepage, Peter Verheyen, Peter De Heyn, Philippe Absil, Patrick Feneyrou, and Jérôme Bourderionnet

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4640-4645 (2018)  View: PDF

Optical Phase Lock Loop as High-Quality Tuneable Filter for Optical Frequency Comb Line Selection

Katarzyna Balakier, Haymen Shams, Martyn J. Fice, Lalitha Ponnampalam, Chris S. Graham, Cyril C. Renaud, and Alwyn J. Seeds

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4646-4654 (2018)  View: PDF

Silicon Photonic Integrated Optoelectronic Oscillator for Frequency-Tunable Microwave Generation

Weifeng Zhang and Jianping Yao

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4655-4663 (2018)  View: PDF

Optical Frequency Tuning for Coherent THz Wireless Signals

Haymen Shams, Katarzyna Balakier, Luis Gonzalez-Guerrero, Martyn J. Fice, Lalitha Ponnampalam, Chris S. Graham, Cyril C. Renaud, and Alwyn J. Seeds

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4664-4670 (2018)  View: PDF

Conditions for Parametric and Free-Carrier Oscillation in Silicon Ring Cavities

Ryan Hamerly, Dodd Gray, Christopher Rogers, and Kambiz Jamshidi

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(19), 4671-4677 (2018)  View: PDF