Microwave photonics articles within Nature

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  • Article
    | Open Access

    A miniaturized optical frequency division system that could transfer the generation of microwaves, with superior spectral purity, to a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor-compatible integrated photonic platform is demonstrated showing potential for large-volume, low-cost manufacturing for many applications.

    • Shuman Sun
    • , Beichen Wang
    •  & Xu Yi
  • Article |

    An integrated lithium niobate photonic processing engine performs integration and differentiation of analogue signals, solves ordinary differential equations, generates ultra-wideband microwave signals and detects edges in images.

    • Hanke Feng
    • , Tong Ge
    •  & Cheng Wang
  • Review Article |

    The current state of programmable photonic integrated circuits is discussed, including recent developments in their building blocks, circuit architectures, electronic control and programming strategies, as well as different application spaces.

    • Wim Bogaerts
    • , Daniel Pérez
    •  & Andrea Melloni
  • Letter |

    The next generation of radar systems must be photonic to obtain frequency flexibility and improved performance; here both generation and detection of radio signals are demonstrated in a successful field trial of a photonic-based radar system using aeroplanes.

    • Paolo Ghelfi
    • , Francesco Laghezza
    •  & Antonella Bogoni
  • News & Views |

    The technological potential of masers — the microwave equivalents of lasers — has been thwarted by their impractical operating conditions. A solid-state maser that works at room temperature may change that. See Letter p.353

    • Aharon Blank
  • Letter |

    Use of nanomechanical resonators has the potential to offer microwave amplification with the minimum possible added noise, namely that due to quantum fluctuations.

    • F. Massel
    • , T. T. Heikkilä
    •  & M. A. Sillanpää
  • News & Views |

    A new type of ion-trap quantum technology has been developed that uses microwave radiation to perform computations. It will considerably simplify the practical implementation of large-scale quantum computers. See Letters p.181 & p.185

    • Winfried K. Hensinger