Emerging applications of integrated optical microcombs for analogue RF and microwave photonic signal processing
Abstract
We review new applications of integrated microcombs in RF and microwave photonic systems. We demonstrate a wide range of powerful functions including a photonic intensity high order and fractional differentiators, optical true time delays, advanced filters, RF channelizer and other functions, based on a Kerr optical comb generated by a compact integrated microring resonator, or microcomb. The microcomb is CMOS compatible and contains a large number of comb lines, which can serve as a high performance multiwavelength source for the transversal filter, thus greatly reduce the cost, size, and complexity of the system. The operation principle of these functions is theoretically analyzed, and experimental demonstrations are presented.
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@article{arxiv.1808.04462,
title = {Emerging applications of integrated optical microcombs for analogue RF and microwave photonic signal processing},
author = {Xingyuan Xu and Jiayang Wu and Sai T. Chu and Brent E. Little and Roberto Morandotti and Arnan Mitchell and David J. Moss},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.04462},
year = {2018}
}
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16 pages, 8 figures, 136 References. Photonics West 2018 invited paper, expanded version. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1710.00678, arXiv:1710.08611