A low-noise photonic heterodyne synthesizer and its application to millimeter-wave radar

Photonics-based radars offer intriguing potential but face tradeoffs in tunability, complexity, and noise. Here the authors present microwave generation in a photonics platform by heterodyning of two low-noise, self-injection-locked lasers, and demonstrate its advantages in an FMCW radar system.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Eric A. Kittlaus, Danny Eliyahu, Setareh Ganji, Skip Williams, Andrey B. Matsko, Ken B. Cooper, Siamak Forouhar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24637-0