Patents by Inventor Xihua ZOU

Xihua ZOU has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11860411
    Abstract: A super-compact arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) wavelength division multiplexer based on a sub-wavelength grating is provided and includes an input waveguide, a first planar waveguide, an arrayed waveguide, a second planar waveguide, and the output waveguide that are sequentially connected. The input waveguide has 1 port, and the output waveguide has 8 ports. The arrayed waveguide includes 50 equivalent uniform strip waveguides with the same length difference, and each of the equivalent uniform strip waveguides is configured as a sub-wavelength grating structure, thereby forming the effect of increasing group refractive index or transmission delay based on a slow light effect. The 8 channels with a channel spacing of 200 GHz have the minimum adjacent channel crosstalk of less than ?27 dB, and the overall size is within 300×230 ?m2. In the multiplexer, the overall integration size of the device is reduced by an order of magnitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Southwest Jiaotong University
    Inventors: Xihua Zou, Changjian Xie, Xiaojun Xie, Wei Pan, Lianshan Yan
  • Publication number: 20230324504
    Abstract: An integrated photonics millimeter wave (MMW) radar communication system based on analog phase modulation scheme includes an integrated photonics MMW radar communication signal transmitter, a radar receiver, and a communication receiver. The transmitter includes a radar communication signal analog phase modulation module, an optical frequency comb (OFC) module, an electro-optic modulator (EOM), an optical shaping filter, an optical power divider, a photoelectric detector, an electric power amplifier, and a transmitting antenna that are cascaded sequentially. The radar receiver includes a radar receiving antenna, an electric low-noise amplifier (LNA), an optical phase modulator, an optical bandpass filter (BPF), a low-speed photoelectric detector, an electric low-pass filter, and a low-speed oscilloscope that are cascaded sequentially.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: Southwest Jiaotong University
    Inventors: Xihua ZOU, Peixuan LI, Wenlin BAI, Jia YE, Lianshan YAN, Wei PAN
  • Publication number: 20230288636
    Abstract: A super-compact arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) wavelength division multiplexer based on a sub-wavelength grating is provided and includes an input waveguide, a first planar waveguide, an arrayed waveguide, a second planar waveguide, and the output waveguide that are sequentially connected. The input waveguide has 1 port, and the output waveguide has 8 ports. The arrayed waveguide includes 50 equivalent uniform strip waveguides with the same length difference, and each of the equivalent uniform strip waveguides is configured as a sub-wavelength grating structure, thereby forming the effect of increasing group refractive index or transmission delay based on a slow light effect. The 8 channels with a channel spacing of 200 GHz have the minimum adjacent channel crosstalk of less than -27 dB, and the overall size is within 300×230 µm2. In the multiplexer, the overall integration size of the device is reduced by an order of magnitude.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Southwest Jiaotong University
    Inventors: Xihua ZOU, Changjian XIE, Xiaojun XIE, Wei PAN, Lianshan YAN
  • Publication number: 20200007261
    Abstract: A radio-over-fiber communication beamforming device based on arrayed waveguide grating and a method thereof. The radio frequency signal is modulated onto a plurality of optical carriers of different wavelengths and processed by a programmable photonic true-time delay module in the optical domain. The programmable photonic true-time delay module includes optical switches and a plurality of cascaded AWGs which can provide different basic delays between adjacent wavelength channels. The basic delays of different stages of the AWG present a geometric sequence with a common ratio of 2. Optical carriers of different wavelengths enter different branches and undergo photoelectric conversion to obtain the radio frequency signals of different delays (phases) to realize a far-field beam directional radiation pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xihua ZOU, Peixuan LI, Wei PAN