Our Circuit Technology Group is organizing a workshop on 26th September 2024 at the “European Microwave Week 2024” (22nd to 27th September 2024) in Paris.
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Workshop WTh04 (EuMC): Microwave Photonics for Wireless Sensing
Thursday 26th September 08:30am to 5:50 pm
Enhancing purely electronic sensors with photonic components can be beneficial for various applications, such as automated driving. For instance, fiber optical interconnects exhibit almost no losses compared to coaxial cables. The low-loss property of fiber optical interconnects makes them particularly appealing for large aperture phased arrays, with or without sparse array techniques. Additionally, optical clock distribution offers more compact cabling and immunity to electromagnetic interference, making it an attractive choice for automotive applications.
This workshop covers several research fields from both the scientific and industrial perspectives. The first industrial keynote speaker will give us an insight into the potentials of microwave photonics from an industrial point of view. Over the last decades, it has become evident that low-cost, high-volume silicon technologies are preferable. Two commercial silicon photonic foundries will provide an overview of their new monolithic integrated silicon-based electronic-photonic integrated processes.
The subsequent speaker will present current research activities in novel system architectures for wireless sensing. Since phase noise is very critical for wireless sensors ultra-low phase noise optical based and enhanced oscillator and phased lock loops will be presented. In addition, a talk will focus on the monolithic integration of electronic photonic radar sensors in silicon photonic based technologies. Since no sensor would be useful without effective signal processing, the second-to-last talk will provide an introduction to the calibration of distributed sensor systems. The session concludes with an outlook on the potential of combining photonic quantum super-resolution techniques with photonic radar for room temperature quantum enhanced wireless sensors.
