Assignments: ELG7100 Microwave photonics
Assignment 1 Due: 8 Oct. 2018 before the Lecture. Type your solutions in a WORD document and submit by email. Using subject "ELG7100A Assignment 1"
Assignment 2 Due: November 14, 2018 before the lecture (type your solutions in a WORD file and submit by email with a subject "ELG7100A Assignment 2"
Assignment 3 Due: 28 Nov. 2018 before the Lecture (type your solutions in a WORD file and submit by email with a subject "ELG7100A Assignment 3"
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:
LEC 1 Monday 14:30-15:50 MNT 103 LEC 2 Wednesday 14:30-15:50 STE F0126
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, 4:00 pm-5:30 pm Wednesday, ARC311, Email: jpyao@uottawa.ca, Ext: 6309
Soheil Zibod, szibo043@uottawa.ca, Office: ARC 385
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