Technologies and techniques for operating an electro-optical transmission device. An optical carrier signal is generated via an optical signal source of a base unit of the transmission device. An arbitrary signal is generated via the optical signal source, and the arbitrary signal is modulated onto the optical carrier signal in the base unit, forming a transmission signal. The transmission signal is transmitted to an antenna unit of the transmission device via an optical transmission medium, and the arbitrary signal and the carrier signal are separated in the antenna unit. Aspects also are directed to a computer program product and to a transmission device configured to perform such functions.

An optical-electronic integrated RF leakage interference cancellation system and method for continuous wave radars belongs to the technical filed of radars. The optical-electronic integrated RF leakage interference cancellation system cancels the RF leakage interference by integrating of the microwave photonic link and the cable link. The microwave photonic link implements the phase adjustment, time delay adjustment and amplitude adjustment of the microwave signal tapped from the continuous wave source in the transmitter and realizes the cancellation matching conditions of the out of phase, the matching delay time and the same amplitude with the leakage interference signal. It has the advantages of broad frequency band, large bandwidth, and high tuning resolution, which enables the effective suppression of the RF leakage interference and ensures the high transmit-to-receive isolation for continuous wave radars.

A hyperspectral radiometer may comprise one or more antennas, a electro-optical modulator modulating the received RF signal onto an optical carrier to generate a modulated signal having at least one sideband; a filter filtering the modulated signal to pass the sideband to a photodetector; and a photodetector producing an electrical signal from which information of the RF signal can be extracted. In some examples, the optical sideband may be spatially dispersed to provide a plurality of spatially separate optical components to the photodetector, where the spatially separate optical components having different frequencies and correspond to different frequencies of the received RF signal. In some examples, the passed sideband may be mixed with an optical beam having a frequency offset from the optical carrier to form a combined beam having at least one optical signal component having a beat frequency from which information of the RF signal can be extracted.

A wireless transmitter/receiver generates a first signal which notifies timing of a time slot allocated to each wireless station device, a conversion unit converts the first signal into an optical signal, and each of a plurality of antenna units converts the first signal from the optical signal into an electrical signal and transmits the electrical signal wirelessly. The wireless station device transmits a second signal at the timing reported by the first signal. Each of the plurality of antenna units converts the second signal wirelessly received from each wireless station device into an optical signal, and the conversion unit converts the second signal from the optical signal into an electrical signal. The wireless transmitter/receiver calculates, for each wireless station device, a transmission delay by using a difference between a reception time of the second signal and a reception time of a signal transmitted at the allocated timing by the wireless station device when it is assumed that there is no transmission delay. The wireless transmitter/receiver determines guard time between the time slots allocated to the wireless station devices based on the transmission delays of the wireless station devices.

The present disclosure relates to an optical line terminal that can be used in an optical fiber access system based on passive optical networks. The present disclosure further relates to a PON system; in particular the optical line terminal can be configured such that colourless components can be employed in a PON system using the optical line terminal and such that wireless communication can be directly employed in a PON system. One embodiment relates to an optical line terminal for a passive optical network, comprising at least a first transmitter for generating a time division multiplexed (TDM) optical carrier signal, said first transmitter comprising a first time lens optical signal processor configured to convert the TDM optical carrier signal to an wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) optical carrier signal for distribution to a plurality of users/ONUs, at least a second transmitter for generating a wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) downstream optical data signal for distribution to said plurality of users/ONUs, and at least one receiver for receiving and processing an upstream signal from said users.

An electronic device may include wireless circuitry with light sources, a set of photodiodes, a resonating element, and a common gate amplifier (CGA). In a transmit mode, the photodiodes may use optical local oscillators to generate equal portions of an antenna current amplified by the CGA for transmission by the resonating element. In a receive mode, the resonating element may generate an antenna current which is amplified by the amplifier and passed to the photodiodes. Including multiple photodiodes coupled to the amplifier in a current sharing configuration may serve to boost power. The amplifier may exhibit a wide bandwidth, may perform impedance matching between the resonating element and the photodiodes, and may isolate the photodiodes from antenna mismatch. The antenna may be integrated into a phased antenna array to further boost power.

A quantum atomic receiving antenna includes: a probe laser; a coupling laser; an atomic vapor cell that includes: a spherically-shaped or parallelepiped-shaped atomic vapor space and Rydberg antenna atoms that undergo a radiofrequency Rydberg transition to produce quantum antenna light from probe light such that an intensity of the quantum antenna light depends on an amount of radiofrequency radiation received by the Rydberg antenna atoms, the quantum antenna light including a strength, direction and polarization of the radiofrequency radiation; and a quantum antenna light detector in optical communication with the atomic vapor cell.

An active optical modulator receives a radio frequency signal and provides an intensity modulated optical signal. The optical modulator is formed on a substrate having a doped region. An interferometer is formed on the substrate having a first path and a second path. A low noise amplifier receives the radio frequency signal and provides an electrical field to the paths. A signal laser provides an optical signal to the interferometer which is modulated and interfered to produce an intensity modulated optical signal. A pump laser provides an optical gain signal to the interferometer where it adds gain to the optical signal in the interferometer by interaction with the doped region of the substrate.

A system for a Rydberg atom based quantum communications transceiver is provided. The system may include a laser source for generating a photon. The system may also include one or more optical elements to create a pair of entangled photons from a generated photon, wherein the pair of entangled photons comprises a first entangled photon and a second entangled photon. The system may further include a radio-frequency (RF) based element to generate a quantum communication path from the pair of entangled photons by creating two Rydberg atom vapor cells (RAVC) that are entangled such that entangled photons may transfer or communicate their entangled state to Rydberg atoms within the Rydberg atom vapor cells (RAVCs) and form at least one entangled link with the other, the communication path comprising the least one entangled link. The system may also include one or more photon receivers, which may use at least one translation technique, to translate entangled state of each of the Rydberg atom vapor cells (RAVC).

An apparatus includes a photonic integrated circuit having an optical phased array, where the optical phased array includes multiple unit cells. Each unit cell includes (i) at least one antenna element configured to transmit or receive optical signals and (ii) a modulator configured to phase-shift the optical signals transmitted or received by the antenna element. Each unit cell is configured to transmit or receive light having multiple polarizations in the optical signals.