Analog & Mixed Signals Seminar - Silicon Photonics for Software-Defined Radios and Radio-over-Fiber Links

Name: Analog & Mixed Signals Seminar - Silicon Photonics for Software-Defined Radios and Radio-over-Fiber Links
Start: 2026-09-04T16:30:00Z
End: 2026-09-04T17:30:00Z
Location: Zachry Engineering Education Complex

When: 11:30 am
Where: Zachry Engineering Education Complex , College Station
Cost: See listing

Abstract: Next-generation wireless communication systems are actively investigated to accommodate the expanding data traffic of the future, prompting the consideration of silicon photonics (SiP) devices and circuits as promising candidates for high- performance, cost-effective solutions. This talk focuses on exploring two state-of-the-art RF applications of SiP technology. The first one is to utilize SiP technology as part of a microwave/mm-wave soft-ware defined radio architecture to provide wideband automatic RF channel selection and jammer rejection. A task which is extremely challenging to achieve using stand-alone integrated electronic radios at these frequencies. The second application is to utilize SiP technology to develop cost-effective remote antenna units for radio-over-fiber links at microwave/mm-wave frequencies. Radio-over-fiber links are very instrumental in deploying dense distributed antenna units to avoid obstacles for indoor wireless communication or distributing 5G/6G wireless communication nodes to expand the wireless coverage. Speaker bio: Dr. Kamran Entesari Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Texas A&M University Kamran Entesari (IEEE Fellow) received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, in 2005. In 2006, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, where he is currently a Texas Instruments Engineering Professor. His current research interests include Integrated RF photonics, RF/microwave/millimeter- wave integrated circuits and systems, microwave sensing, and reconfigurable RF/microwave antennas and filters. Prof. Entesari was a recipient of 2018 and 2017 Qualcomm Faculty Award and 2011 National Science Foundation CAREER Award. He was a co-recipient of the 2009 Semiconductor Research Corporation Design Contest Second Project Award, the Best Student Paper Award of the IEEE RFIC Symposium in 2014 (second place), the IEEE International Microwave Symposium in 2011 (third place), and the IEEE AP-S in 2013 (Honorable Mention). He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, a Member of Editorial Board for IEEE Solid-State Electronics Letters and a Technical Program Committee Member of the IEEE RFIC Symposium. He is currently a Technical Program Committee Member of IEEE IMS. He has co-authored more than 180 peer-reviewed IEEE journals and conference papers.

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