Microwave photonics approach as a novel smart fabrication technique of a radio communication jammers

Abstract A novel technique to fabricate a responsive radio communication jammer, the purpose of which is to suppress a radio signal with a detonation code as well as to interfere communication link due to Denial-of-Service effect is proposed and highlighted. The distinctive feature of our approach is to the process received radio signals, when instead of the operation of introducing noise interference into each radio channel exclusively used in existing multi-channel jammers, a common single-channel device with optoelectronic processor is exploited, which generates many replicas of received radio signal that critically degrade its signal-to-interference ratio so that the remote-controlled detonators of the explosive installed at the objects cannot be triggered. The results of our investigations to computer-aided design a response time performance of the proposed jammer using a co-simulation of specialized optoelectronic computer tool VPI Photonics Design Suite and a versatile Matlab software. The layout and results of proof-of-concept experiment that validate the simulation are presented and discussed.