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Optical Wireless Systems
Description
Optical fiber, Microwave photonics, Optical networks, Optical components.
The optical technology allows to perform functions in microwave systems that are complex or even not directly possible in the radiofrequency domain for wireless signals and also creates new opportunities for telecommunication networks. The combination of the worlds of Radiofrequency Engineering and Optoelectronics, known as Microwave photonics, has attracted great interest from both the research community and the commercial sector over the past 30 years and is set to have a bright future. The theoretical basis of such systems will be explained in the course, followed by a summary of recent research in the most significant applications, such as filtering, signal generation, phased array antenna optical beamforming, analog to digital conversion and optoelectronic oscillators, among others.
Recommended knowledge
Optical Communications
Evaluation
There will be a continuous evaluation based on two exams, which will contribute to 90% of the total qualification. Lecturers will propose several projects, which the students can choose to complete the rest 10%. Only the students who have not obtained 5 in the total qualifications will have to approve the final exam to pass the course.
Learning Units
- 1. Introduction: Microwave photonics applications
- 2. MWP systems: Analysis and Figures of Merit
- 3. Radio over fibre technology (2h)
- 4. Microwave photonic filters (6h)
- 4.1 Fundamentals
- 4.2 Implementations
- 4.3 High performance filters
- 5. All-optical label swapping networks
- 6. Optical beamforming networks for phased array antennas
- 7. Optoelectronic oscillators
- 8. Conversors Analog-Digital
- 9. Arbitrary RF signal photonic generation (UWB, millimetre wave, etc.)
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