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Integrated microwave photonics for sensing and communications

  • Nano Colloquia
Speaker
Antonella Bogoni
Affiliation
Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
Date
2025-12-18
Time
14:15
Venue
ON-SITE NEST Meeting room ONLINE https://www.nano.cnr.it/NanoColloquia
Host
Pisa Colloquia Committee

Microwave photonics (MWP), i.e., the use of photonics in radiofrequency (RF) applications, has been recently demonstrated to overcome the intrinsic limitations of RF electronics. It has the potential to revolutionize the RF connectivity and sensing paradigms providing wideband and frequency flexible operations, real time RF signal processing and distribution. In this framework, MWP based on photonic integrated circuits (PICs), the so-called integrated MWP (IMWP), is mandatory to reduce size and consumption as requested by compact platforms (e.g., drones and robots) or harsh environments (i.e., satellites).
The talk will introduce the main advances on IMWP of the photonics center in Pisa where Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna and CNIT (The National Inter-university Consortium for Telecommunications) are collaborating in the last 25 years.

 

Seminar realized in the framework of the funded projects:

-COSMOS: Photonics-based COherent SAR constellation for Multistatic and multispectral satellite Earth ObServation - Ministry of Education, Universities and Research-FISR program (special supplementary fund for research);
-SPACEBEAM: SPACE SAR system with reconfigurable integrated photonic BEAMforming - European Commission (H2020);
-PIOTS: Packaged integrated photonics-based RF/optical hybrid transceiver key-elements for sensing and communication - European Space Agency;
-SCORPIUS: Development on chip of a multifrequency optical oscillator for radars in space -  Italian Space Agency ASI;
-RODI: Rf/Optical combined coherent transceiver for Radar/lIdar and RF/optical communications in space - Italian Space Agency ASI;
-POINTING: Photonics-based frequency-agile RF transceiver with High Precision Optical Beamforming for satellite rad/com systems - Italian Space Agency ASI;
-PHODIR: PHOtonic-based full DIgital Rada - European Research Council Starting Grant.