Demonstration of a Photonically Controlled RF Phase Shifter

IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 357-359

  Lee, Sang Shin ^a   Udupa, Anand H ^b   Erlig, Hernan ^c   Zhang, Hua ^d   Chang, Yian ^c   Zhang, Cheng ^d   Chang, Daniel H ^b   Bhattacharya, Daipayan ^b   Tsap, Boris ^c   Steier, William H ^d   Dalton, Larry R ^d   Fetterman, Harlod R ^b  

^a Department of Physics Coimbatore Institute of Technology   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Pacific Wave Industries   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Nested Mach Zehnder modulators; nonlinear optical polymers; photonic RF phase shifters; traveling wave polymer modulators

Indexed keywords

MODULATORS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; POLYMERS; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

NESTED DUAL MACH-ZEHNDER MODULATOR; NONLINEAR OPTICAL POLYMERS; PHOTONIC RADIO FREQUENCY (RF) PHASE SHIFTERS;

PHASE SHIFTERS;

EID: 0033311294     PISSN: 10518207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/75.790473     Document Type: Article

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