Light and Ultrasonic Waves Combination in Silicon Chips Enables Better Signal Processing
Written by AZoOpticsMay 20 2021
Light waves largely govern the sustained growth of cellular and wireless data traffic. Microwave photonics can be defined as the field of technology that is devoted to the processing and distribution of electrical data signals through optical ways.
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Microwave photonic systems, unlike conventional solutions based only on electronics, can manage large volumes of information. Hence, microwave photonics has turned out to be progressively significant not only as part of 5G cellular networks but also much further.
The main task of microwave photonics is the achievement of narrowband filters: that is, the selection of particular data, at particular frequencies, out of enormous volumes that are transmitted over light.