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Photonics Research, Volume. 6, Issue 5, B30(2018)

Photonic microwave true time delays for phased array antennas using a 49  GHz FSR integrated optical micro-comb source [Invited]

Xingyuan Xu1、†, Jiayang Wu1、†, Thach G. Nguyen2, Tania Moein1, Sai T. Chu3, Brent E. Little4, Roberto Morandotti5,6,7, Arnan Mitchell2, and David J. Moss1、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Centre for Micro-Photonics, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia
  • 2ARC Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia
  • 3Department of Physics and Material Science, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Hong Kong, China
  • 4State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710119, China
  • 5INRS-Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, 1650 Boulevard Lionel-Boulet, Varennes, Québec J3X 1S2, Canada
  • 6National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • 7Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China
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    Special Issue: NONLINEAR INTEGRATED PHOTONICS: CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE TRENDS

    Received: Nov. 13, 2017

    Accepted: Jan. 29, 2018

    Published Online: Apr. 11, 2019

    The Author Email: David J. Moss (dmoss@swin.edu.au)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.6.000B30

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