ELG7100 Microwave photonics Assignments: Assignment 1 Due: Oct 4, 2017 before the lecture Assignment 2 Due: Nov 1, 2017 before the lecture Assignment 3 Due: Dec 4, 2017 before the lecture Calendar Description: Optical components for microwave photonics applications. Radio over fiber systems. Photonic true time delay beamforming. Optical generation of microwave signals. Optical domain microwave filtering. All-optical microwave signal up- and down- conversions. Photonic digital conversions. Schedule: Lecture 1 Monday 14:30 - 16:00 CBY E015 Lecture 2 Wednesday 14:30 - 16:00 CBY E016 Lecture Notes: (Note: equations may not be displayed correctly using Chrome PDF viewer) L1   L2   L3   L4   L5   L6   L7   L8   L9   L10   L11   L12   L13   L14   L15   L16   L17   L18   L19 SFDR   L20 AWG   MWP filters with complex coefficients Nonuniformly spaced MWP filters Prerequisites: ELG4173, or ELG5103 or equivalent Evaluation scheme: 30% Assignments 50% Midterm Exam 20% Project Report Office hours: Dr. Jianping Yao, 2:30 pm-5:30 pm Wednesday, ARC311, Email: jpyao@uottawa.ca, Ext: 6309 Course Outline: Week 1 Optical fibers, fiber dispersion (modal dispersion, chromatic dispersion and polarization mode dispersion), fiber loss and nonlinearity (stimulated Brillouin scattering, stimulated Raman scattering, self-phase and cross-phase modulation, four-wave mixing) Week 2 Optical sources (semiconductor lasers, light emitting diodes), optical modulators (electrooptic modulators, optical absorption modulators), photodetectors (PIN diodes, and Avalanche diodes) Week 3 Fiber Bragg gratings (uniform and chirped fiber Bragg gratings), Arrayed waveguide, and other passive components (Couplers, circulators) Week 4 Radio over fiber network architectures Week 5 Radio signal transmission over fiber Week 6 Photonic true-time delay beamforming architecture Week 7 Optical generation of microwave signals Week 8 Photonics digital converters, optoelectronic processors Week 9 Optical domain microwave filtering Week 10 All-optical microwave signal up- and down- conversions Week 11-12 Project presentations Reference books: 1. Anne Vilcot, Beatrice Cabon and Jean Chazelas, Microwave Photonics: From Components to Applications and Systems, Kluwer Academic Pub 2. Hamed Al-Raweshidy, Shozo Komaki, editors, Radio over fiber technologies for mobile communications networks, Boston, Artech House, 2002 3. Henry Zmuda, Edward N. Toughlian, editors, Photonic aspects of modern radar, Boston, Artech House, 1994. Papers: Selected research papers in the topics