University of Ottawa

Purpose

Photonic generation of millimeter-wave frequencies (30 GHz–300 GHz) has recently attracted great interest from both academia and industry, particularly for applications in future seamless fiber-wireless integrated optical access networks (OAN), such as both front-haul and back-haul of 5G and beyond (6G) of mobile wireless networks. A wireless access network (WAN) at millimeter-wave bands has large bandwidth for high speed indoor/hotspot communications to be utilized to support the combination of small cells and millimeter-wave radio, and fiber-optic communications plays an important role in both the back-haul and front-haul networks. The objective of the project is to implement heterogeneous photonic integration to develop fully integrated microwave photonic systems for the generation and transmission of millimeter-wave signals be used in 5G and beyond wireless networks.