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 solutions for the generation, 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 optical generation of microwa...

Nail Akhmediev,1 Wiesław Królikowski,2 and A. W. Snyder1 1Australian Photonics CRC, Optical Science Centre, Research School of Physics Science and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia 2Australian Photonics CRC, Laser Physics Centre, Research School of Physics Science and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia (Recei...

Anders Nysteen, Dara P. S. McCutcheon, 1 Mikkel Heuck, Jesper Mørk, and Dirk R. Englund DTU Fotonik, Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Building 343, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark Centre for Quantum Photonics, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TL, United Kingdom Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cam...

This paper describes recent progress of photonicallyenabled systems for millimeter-wave and terahertz measurement applications. After briefly explaining signal generation schemes as a foundation of photonics-based approach, system configurations for specific applications are discussed. Then, practical demonstrations are presented, which include frequency-domain spectroscopy, phase-sensitive mea...