Advanced optical processing of microwave signals

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2005, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1462-1484

  Ortega, Beatriz ^a,c   Pastor, Daniel ^a   Mora, José ^a   Capmany, José ^a,d   Andrés, Miguel V ^b,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c Telecommunications Engineering Faculty   (Spain)

^d Logic Synthesis Group   (Spain)

^e IEEE   (Spain)

^f OSA ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Delay lines; Microwave photonics; Optical fibers; Transversal filters

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE PHOTONICS; TRANSVERSAL FILTERS; TUNABILITY;

ELECTRIC DELAY LINES; MICROWAVES; OPTICAL FILTERS; PHOTONS;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 27844437973     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/ASP.2005.1462     Document Type: Review

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