Generation and distribution of a wide-band continuously tunable millimeter-wave signal with an optical external modulation technique

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3090-3097

  Qi, Guohua ^b   Yao, Jianping ^a,b,d   Seregelyi, Joe ^c   Paquet, Stéphane ^c   Bélisle, Claude ^c,e,f  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c Digital Radio Broadcast Technologies Research Division   (Canada)

^d OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^e CRC Advanced Radio System Group

^f CRC Advanced Radio System Group ^*

Author keywords

Electrooptic modulator; Fiber Bragg grating (FBG); Microwave photonics; Millimeter wave generation; Optical heterodye

Indexed keywords

ELECTROOPTIC MODULATOR; MICROWAVE PHOTONICS; MULTIMETER-WAVE GENERATION; OPTICAL HETERODYE;

ATTENUATION; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; MICROWAVES; NOTCH FILTERS;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 27644476903     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.855123     Document Type: Article

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