Recent Advances in Microwave Photonics Technologies
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical Interaction Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 280
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microwave photonics; optical communication; photoelectric information processing; intelligent photonic computing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Microwave photonics, as an interdisciplinary area, studies the interaction between microwave and optical signals to achieve to generate, process, control, and transmit microwave signals, taking advantages of high frequency, large bandwidth and low loss offered by modern photonics. In the past few years, microwave photonics techniques have been proposed and demonstrated for applications of broadband wireless access networks, sensor networks, radar, instrumentation, warfare systems and so on. However, there are still some challenges to be addressed. We are pleased to invite you to submit original research on the recent advances in microwave photonics technologies.
This Special Issue aims to bring original research articles and reviews in order to contribute to the developments and applications of microwave photonics techniques.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following:
- Microwave photonic filters;
- Optoelectronic oscillators;
- Optical frequency combs;
- Photonic generation and processing of microwave and mm-wave signals;
- Photonic true-time delay beamforming for phased array antennas;
- Photonic analog-to-digital conversion;
- Integrated microwave photonics;
- Microwave photonic systems for sensing and communication applications;
- Microwave photonics for radio frequency and microwave systems;
- Novel devices and systems for microwave photonics;
- Novel applications of microwave photonics.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Juanjuan Yan
Dr. Qian Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- microwave photonics
- microwave photonic filters
- optoelectronic oscillators
- optical frequency combs
- arbitrary waveforms generation
- radio over fiber
- integrated microwave photonics
- microwave photonic radars
- microwave signal measurements
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