• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 6, Issue 5, B30 (2018)
Xingyuan Xu1、†, Jiayang Wu1、†, Thach G. Nguyen2, Tania Moein1, Sai T. Chu3, Brent E. Little4, Roberto Morandotti5、6、7, Arnan Mitchell2, and David J. Moss1、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Centre for Micro-Photonics, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia
  • 2ARC Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia
  • 3Department of Physics and Material Science, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Hong Kong, China
  • 4State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710119, China
  • 5INRS-Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, 1650 Boulevard Lionel-Boulet, Varennes, Québec J3X 1S2, Canada
  • 6National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • 7Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China
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    Xingyuan Xu, Jiayang Wu, Thach G. Nguyen, Tania Moein, Sai T. Chu, Brent E. Little, Roberto Morandotti, Arnan Mitchell, David J. Moss. Photonic microwave true time delays for phased array antennas using a 49  GHz FSR integrated optical micro-comb source [Invited][J]. Photonics Research, 2018, 6(5): B30 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    We demonstrate significantly improved performance of a microwave true time delay line based on an integrated optical frequency comb source. The broadband micro-comb (over 100 nm wide) features a record low free spectral range (FSR) of 49 GHz, resulting in an unprecedented record high channel number (81 over the C band)—the highest number of channels for an integrated comb source used for microwave signal processing. We theoretically analyze the performance of a phased array antenna and show that this large channel count results in a high angular resolution and wide beam-steering tunable range. This demonstrates the feasibility of our approach as a competitive solution toward implementing integrated photonic true time delays in radar and communications systems.
    θ0=arcsinc·τdPAA,(1)

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    θ0=arcsinc·mTdPAA.(2)

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    AF(θ,λRF)=sin2[Mπ(dPAA/λRF)(sinθc·mT/dPAA)]M2sin2[π(dPAA/λRF)(sinθc·mT/dPAA)],(3)

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    τ(μ)=p0+p1μ+p2μ2,(4)

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    Xingyuan Xu, Jiayang Wu, Thach G. Nguyen, Tania Moein, Sai T. Chu, Brent E. Little, Roberto Morandotti, Arnan Mitchell, David J. Moss. Photonic microwave true time delays for phased array antennas using a 49  GHz FSR integrated optical micro-comb source [Invited][J]. Photonics Research, 2018, 6(5): B30
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