Photonics Research, Volume. 10, Issue 7, 1679(2022)

Photonics-enabled distributed MIMO radar for high-resolution 3D imaging

Jingwen Dong1, Qiang Sun1,2, Zekun Jiao1, Liqi Zhang1,2, Ziqiang Yin1,2, Jiajie Huang1,2, Jinghan Yu3, Shu Wang3, Shangyuan Li3, Xiaoping Zheng3, and Wangzhe Li1,2、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1National Key Laboratory of Microwave Imaging Technology, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  • 2School of Electronics, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 3Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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    Jingwen Dong, Qiang Sun, Zekun Jiao, Liqi Zhang, Ziqiang Yin, Jiajie Huang, Jinghan Yu, Shu Wang, Shangyuan Li, Xiaoping Zheng, Wangzhe Li. Photonics-enabled distributed MIMO radar for high-resolution 3D imaging[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(7): 1679

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    Paper Information

    Category: Fiber Optics and Optical Communications

    Received: Mar. 30, 2022

    Accepted: May. 28, 2022

    Published Online: Jun. 28, 2022

    The Author Email: Wangzhe Li (wzli@mail.ie.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.459762

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