Microwave Photonics Techniques Supporting Flexible Wireless Communications Links

Wireless data communication links supporting the next generation 5G and beyond mobile networking face a set of engineering challenges related to the mandatory operation at mmw and higher frequency bands, provide capacities above 10Gb/s, satisfy latency, robustness, flexibility and low complexity constrains. Microwave photonic techniques support a number of key functionalities required to satisfy above-mentioned demands. We will review, in particular, experimental realizations of a number of functionalities such as mmw generation, detection, optical fiber transport and multi-Gigabit data transmission implementation exploiting photonic techniques. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This work was partly financially supported by the Government of the Russian Federation (Grant 074-U01) through ITMO Visiting Professorship scheme.