Widely tunable RF photonic filter using WDM and a multichannel chirped fiber grating

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 900-905

  Hunter, David B ^a   Nguyen, Linh V T ^a  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fiber Bragg gratings; Microwave photonics; Photonic microwave filters; Transversal fiiters

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PHOTODETECTORS; TOPOLOGY; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

MCFG-BASED TECHNIQUES; MICROWAVE PHOTONICS; PHOTONIC MICROWAVE FILTERS; TRANSVERSAL FIITERS;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 33144469691     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.863048     Document Type: Article

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