RF Engineering Meets Optoelectronics: Progress in Integrated Microwave Photonics

Author

Iezekiel, Stavros ; Burla, Maurizio ; Klamkin, Jonathan ; Marpaung, David ; Capmany, Jose

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

Volume

16

Issue

8

fYear

2015

fDate

Sept. 2015

Firstpage

28

Lastpage

45

Abstract

Integrated microwave photonics (IMWP) is concerned with applying integrated photonics technology to microwave photonic systems. It is one of the most active and exciting areas of current research and development in microwave photonics (MWP), building upon the impressive foundations of integrated photonics in various systems involving material platforms such as indium phosphide (InP) and silicon nitride (Si3N4). The aim of this article is to explain to the wider microwave engineering community the significance of the new field of IMWP and to describe how it may potentially be applied to improve the performance and capabilities of microwave and millimeter-wave (mmWave) systems. Just as the microwave monolithic integrated circuit (MMIC) has revolutionized active microwave circuits, IMWP is poised to open up new applications for microwave engineering that take advantage of the unique functionalities offered by photonics, especially with regard to its large bandwidth.

Keywords

MMIC; indium compounds; integrated optoelectronics; microwave photonics; millimetre wave integrated circuits; silicon compounds; IMWP; InP; MMIC; RF engineering; Si₃N₄; indium phosphide; integrated microwave photonics technology; microwave engineering; microwave monolithic integrated circuit; millimeter-wave system; mmWave system; optoelectronics; silicon nitride; Microwave filters; Microwave photonics; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical signal processing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1527-3342

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MMM.2015.2442932

Filename

7173150