Patent ID: 11936433
Assignee: CHINA ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY GROUP CORPORATION NO.10 RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. An integrated microwave photon transceiving front-end for a phased array system, comprising: a ceramic substrate, on which a control integrated circuit is carried, a silicon-based photonic integrated chip, a first amplifying chipset, a second amplifying chipset, and a microwave switch chipset are carried,
wherein the control integrated circuit is configured to control the silicon-based photonic integrated chip and the microwave switch chipset by means of an input control signal;
wherein the silicon-based photonic integrated chip is connected at one end with an input/output optical fiber, and at the other end with the first amplifying chipset and the second amplifying chipset;
wherein the first amplifying chipset and the second amplifying chipset are connected to the microwave switch chipset respectively, and the microwave switch chipset is further connected with a phased array antenna;
wherein the silicon-based photonic integrated chip comprises a transmitting beam forming chip and a receiving beam forming chip, the transmitting beam forming chip comprising a first wavelength division demultiplexer, a plurality of first optical switches, and a Ge—Si detector, wherein the first wavelength division demultiplexer is configured to receive an optical signal from the input optical fiber and demultiplex the optical signal into a plurality of photon channels, and each photon channel is formed by the plurality of first optical switches connected in series and a plurality of optical waveguides with different time delays, and wherein the Ge—Si detector is configured to convert the delayed optical signal into a microwave signal, which is output to the first amplifying chipset through a traveling wave electrode.