Microwave Photonics

Microwave Photonics is a field that combines the advantages of Photonics and Microwaves to try and solve the challenges of communication systems.

We have developed microwave photonic functionalities using linear and nonlinear optical techniques with state-of-the-art performance metrics. 

We are currently pursuing research in microwave photonics for 5G applications, Beam steering and high-frequency applications.


Rajveer, Reena, and Mukund, are working on this topic.


Nanosecond delay line achieved in a Silicon Nitride ring resonator waveguide (Optica, 4, 418-423, 2017)

Selected Publications

 Y. Liu, D. Marpaung, B.J. Eggleton, and A. Choudhary, “High-Performance Chip-assisted Microwave Photonic Functionalities,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 30, 1822 – 1825, 2018 (Invited) Link

Y. Liu, D. Marpaung, A. Choudhary, J. Hotten, B. J. Eggleton, “Link Performance Optimization of Chip-based Si3N4 Microwave Photonic Filters,” IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, 36, 4361-4370, 2018 Link

A. Choudhary, Y. Liu, B. Morrison, K. Vu, D-Y. Choi, P. Ma, S. Madden, D. Marpaung, and B. J. Eggleton, “High-resolution, on-chip RF photonic signal processor using Brillouin gain shaping and RF interference” Scientific Reports, 7, 5932, 2017 Link

 Y. Liu, A. Choudhary, D. Marpaung, B. J. Eggleton, “Gigahertz optical tuning of an on-chip radio frequency photonic delay line,” Optica, 4, 418-423, 2017 Link