General-purpose programmable photonic processor for advanced radiofrequency applications.

ABSTRACT: A general-purpose photonic processor can be built integrating a silicon photonic programmable core in a technology stack comprising an electronic monitoring and controlling layer and a software layer for resource control and programming. This processor can leverage the unique properties of photonics in terms of ultra-high bandwidth, high-speed operation, and low power consumption while operating in a complementary and synergistic way with electronic processors. These features are key in applications such as next-generation 5/6 G wireless systems where reconfigurable filtering, frequency conversion, arbitrary waveform generation, and beamforming are currently provided by microwave photonic subsystems that cannot be scaled down. Here we report the first general-purpose programmable processor

SUBMITTER: Perez-Lopez D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10879507 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature