A Tutorial on Microwave Photonics

The broad bandwidth and low loss offered by modern photonics have led to an ever-increasing interest in the design and implementation of photonically assisted systems for the genera- tion, processing, control and distribution of microwave signals, an area called microwave photonics. In this article, a tutorial on microwave photonics is presented with an emphasis on photonic true-time delay beamforming, radio-over-fiber and UWB-over- fiber distribution and photonic analog-to-digital conversion.

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