Photonic Microwave and RF Channelizers using Kerr Micro-combs

Tan, Mengxi; Xu, Xingyuan; Moss, David J.

doi:10.48550/arXiv.2104.09297

Photonic Microwave and RF Channelizers using Kerr Micro-combs

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posted on 2023-01-11, 22:34 authored by Mengxi Tan, Xingyuan Xu, David J. Moss

We review recent work on broadband RF channelizers based on integrated optical frequency Kerr micro-combs combined with passive micro-ring resonator filters, with microcombs having channel spacings of 200GHz and 49GHz. This approach to realizing RF channelizers offers reduced complexity, size, and potential cost for a wide range of applications to microwave signal detection.