“…The converter discussed here involves an optical resonator interacting with the W-band signal of interest, as well as with a monochromatic optical carrier. The microwave signal is upconverted to the optical frequency domain and is processed optically [ 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 ]. Since the optical parts have small sizes and are characterized by low attenuation and negligible thermal noise, the entire photonic system has much smaller dimensions, as well as superior performance, compared to a pure electronic implementation.…”