ECE 282: Microwave Photonics

ECE 282: Special Topics - Microwave Photonics

4 units. Prerequisites: Undergraduate level coursework on optics, and optoelectronics.

Lectures: Tuesday and Thursday, 3:30 pm to 4:50 pm, HSSB 1128B.

Overview: An inter-disciplinary discussion of the devices, systems and networks that lie at the intersection of microwave and radio frequency applications and modern-day photonic devices.

References:
C.H. Lee (ed) "Microwave Photonics" (CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 2007)
W.S.C. Chang (ed) "RF Photonic Technology in Optical Fiber Links" (Cambridge, 2007)

On reserve at the Science and Engineering Library.

Contact Information

Prof. Shayan Mookherjea	EBU1 3203, x 44483, mookherjea (at) ece.ucsd.edu	Office hours: Wednesday 3 pm to 4 pm, EBU1 3203.
Dr. Christina Lim	EBU1 3803, c.lim (at) ee.unimelb.edu.au	Office hours: TBA
Travis Spackman	EBU1 5601, x24697

Course policies

Prepare and deliver a PPT presentation (about 30-50 mins) and one written report (7-12 pages) in the style of a critical review article. Your presentation should lead to an interesting and informative in-class discussion. Your writeup should summarize the contents of a review paper (or papers) and describe the recent important advances. Please try to answer the following questions, "what is the current state-of-the-art?" and "what are the remaining questions or issues? (i.e. what remains to be done?)"

We will provide or guide you towards some "classic" references – you follow up the reference thread upto 2007 using ISI WoK, IEEE Xplore, OSA Optics InfoBase etc.

Schedule and notes

J. Capmany and D. Novak, "Microwave photonics combines two worlds" Nature Photonics, Vol. 1, 319-330 (2007)
A.J. Seeds, "Microwave Photonics", IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol. 50, No. 3, pp. 877-887 (Mar. 2002)
Special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol. 49, No. 10, Part 2 (Oct 2001)

Jan 10: Radio over Fiber (Part 1) (PPT, 1.1MB) [CL]
Jan 15: Limits on direct-current modulation of semiconductor laser (PDF, 70 kB)

Matsui, Y., Murai, H., Arahira, S., Kutsuzawa, S. & Ogawa, Y. "30-GHz bandwidth 1.55-um strained-compensated InGaAlAs–InGaAsP MQW laser." IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. Vol. 9, pp. 25–27 (1997). Jan 17: Radio over Fiber (Part 2) (PDF, 705 kB)[CL]: spectral efficiency, modulation depth, distortion. Merge RoF with WDM backbone.
Jan 22: Amplitude-phase coupling, chirp and its consequences (PDF, 67 kB)

Agilent Application Note [URL]

Jan 24: How do you calculate figures of merit (SNR, NF, SFDR, O-IP3) for a RoF link?

Jan 29: Radio over Fiber (Part 3) (PDF, 350 kB)[CL]: SNR calculations, link configuration: RF over fiber, or IF over fiber?
Jan 31: RoF over Passive optical networks (PON), cDWDM and dWDM [CL]

Feb 5: Chirp in externally-modulated lasers, spectral reshaping ("chirp-managed lasers" by Finisar Corp.)

F. Koyama and K. Iga, "Frequency chirping in external modulators" J. Lightwave Technol. Vol. 6(1), pp. 87-93 (1988) Feb 7: Prof. J. Buckwalter (UCSD): Integrated circuits for monolithic (silicon) optical transceivers.

Feb 12: No class meeting.
Feb 14: Improving on direct modulation by injection locking.

Meng, X. J., Chau, T. & Wu, M. C. "Experimental demonstration of modulation bandwidth enhancment in distributed feedback lasers with external light injection." Electron. Lett. Vol. 34, pp. 2031–2032 (1998). Feb 26: Johana Yan: Optical and electro-optical A/D conversion
Feb 26: Marco Antonio Escobar: Ultrafast optical switching in silicon
Feb 28: Dr. W. Green (IBM Photonics). Class meets in EBU1 2512 at 4 pm.

Mar 4: Catherine Noble: SAR + 3-band optical imagery + LADAR + hyperspectral imagery
Mar 4: Joshua R. Windmiller: Tunable optical delay
Mar 6: Prof. Paul Yu (UCSD): microwave photonic modulators and detectors (PDF, 1.6 Mb)

Topics:

Mar 10: Stephen J. Olivas: Polymer modulators
Mar 10: Jung S. Park: Microring-based filters and switches
Mar 10: Michael L. Cooper: Lithium Niobate modulators