Characterization of a coherent optical RF channelizer based on a diffraction grating

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1996-2001

  Wang, Wenshen ^a   Davis, Richard L ^b   Jung, Thomas J ^b   Lodenkamper, Robert ^c   Lembo, Lawrence J ^b   Brock, John C ^d   Wu, Ming C ^e  

^a New Focus Inc   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Informed Diagnostics Inc   (United States)

^d Velocium   (United States)

^e University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Gratings; Optical data processing; Optical mixing; Optical receiver; Optical signal processing; RF photonics

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL MIXING; RADIO FREQUENCY (RF) PHOTONICS;

BANDWIDTH; CHANNEL CAPACITY; COHERENT LIGHT; CROSSTALK; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; HETERODYNING; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0035475963     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.954820     Document Type: Article

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