US Patent Issued to The University of Sydney on Sept. 15 for "Radar system having a photonics-based signal generator" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,615, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to The University of Sydney (Sydney).

"Radar system having a photonics-based signal generator" was invented by Ziqian Zhang (Sydney), Yang Liu (Sydney) and Benjamin John Eggleton (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to radio detection and ranging (radar) systems and, in particular, to a radar system having a photonics-based signal generator. Such a radar system comprises a stepped-frequency optical signal generator, an optical-to-electrical converter, and a transmitter. The stepped-frequency optical signal generator is configured for converting an optical signal...