Shilong Pan

Microwave photonic components and subsystems can replace or complement their electronic counterparts with a net
gain in functionality, bandwidth, size, mass, complexity, and cost, facilitating innovative implementation of cognitive
radio. In this talk, photonics-based measurement techniques including broadband spectrum sensing and ultrahighresolution radar imaging are reviewed, which can be employed to establish broadband cognitive radio together with
adaptive microwave photonic waveform generation. As an example of broadband cognitive radio enabled by the
photonics-based measurement , a conceptual cognitive radar system is experimentally demonstrated and analyzed.
Emerging technologies in this area and possible future research directions are discussed.

Biography:

Shilong Pan received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China,
in 2004 and 2008, respectively. From 2008 to 2010, he was a “Vision 2010” Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the
Microwave Photonics Research Laboratory, University of Ottawa, Canada. He joined the College of Electronic and
Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China, in 2010, where he is currently a
Full Professor and an Executive Director of the Key Laboratory of Radar Imaging and Microwave Photonics, the
Ministry of Education.
His research has focused on microwave photonics, which includes optical generation and processing of microwave
signals, analog photonic links, photonic microwave measurement, and integrated microwave photonics. Prof. Pan has
authored or co-authored over 420 research papers, including more than 230 papers in peer-reviewed journals and
190 papers in conference proceedings.

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