12.5-GHz optically sampled interference-based photonic arbitrary waveform generator

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2727-2729

  Kondratko, Piotr Konrad ^a   Leven, Andreas ^b   Chen, Young Kai ^b   Lin, Jie ^b,c   Koc, Ut Va ^b   Tu, Kun Yii ^b   Lee, Jaesik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrooptic modulator; Microwave photonics; Optical digital to analog converter (DAC); Photonic arbitrary waveform generation

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERSION; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; INTERMODULATION; JITTER; LASER MODE LOCKING; LIGHT MODULATORS;

ELECTROOPTIC MODULATORS; INTERMODULATION DISTORTION MEASUREMENT; MACH-ZEHNDER MODULATORS; MICROWAVE PHOTONICS; PHOTONIC ARBITRARY WAVEFORM GENERATOR;

OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 29244487893     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.859551     Document Type: Article

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