[WG3] Programmable Photonics and Wireless Communications

3:00 PM - 3:15 PM JST(6:00 AM - 6:15 AM UTC)

[WG3-4] An Ultra-Wideband and High-Resolution Microwave Photonic Beamforming Network

○Yifei Chong^1,2, Senyu Zhang^1,2, Wei Luo^1,2, Yunlong Li^1,2, Yiqiang Ou^1,2, Tiange Wu^1,2, Shuang Zheng^1,2,3, Minming Zhang^1,2,3 (1. Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science & Technology (China), 2. National Engineering Research Center of Next Generation Internet Access-system (China), 3. Optics Valley Laboratory (China))

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Microwave photonic devices and systems

We propose an ultra-wideband and high-resolution microwave photonic beamforming system. The silicon-integrated 8-channel 4-bit tunable optical true-time delaylines are designed, and the results demonstrate 32 distinct pointing angles from -85.5°to 69.1°.