Chaotic radar using nonlinear laser dynamics

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 815-820

  Lin, Fan Yi ^a   Liu, Jia Ming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaos; Correlation; Nonlinear optics; Radar; Semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BANDWIDTH; ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); NONLINEAR OPTICS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

ADDITIVE WHITE GAUSSIAN NOISE; CHAOTIC RADAR; CHAOTIC WAVEFORMS; LASER CHAOS; PLANAR ANTENNAS; PROOF OF CONCEPT EXPERIMENTS; REAL TIME OSCILLOSCOPE;

RADAR;

EID: 3042690676     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2004.828237     Document Type: Article

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