The Department
The RF & Optical Department focuses on research and development of advanced antenna, RF, and optical technology.  The mission of department is to build up strong competence in antenna, RF and optical areas by conducting long-term basic/applied research and training quality researchers and engineers to meet demands of rapid development of wireless technologies. 

Key Competencies & Potential Applications
Currently, the research into antenna technology is focused on novel design concept and new application of electromagnetic materials for antennas with high performance such as broadband/multiple-mode operation for modern wireless systems such as UWB, WLAN WiMAX, WiFi, MIMO, on-body/implanted communications.

The research in RF technology is targeted at development of components, modules and sub-systems for emerging wireless systems such as phased arrays, UWB radar, UWB localization, and RFID systems.

The research in optical fiber transmission aims to investigate optically amplified, high-speed, multi-wavelength optical signals in long-haul and metropolitan area networks, and develop RoF technology for picocell applications with low cost optical components.

The research into sensors based on optical fibre is to develop the new sensors which can perform measurements with distributed sensing and high level of immunity from interferences, like EM and RF interference.

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