Photonic generation of microwave signal using a dual-wavelength single-longitudinal-mode fiber ring laser

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 804-809

  Chen, Xiangfei ^a,b,c   Deng, Zhichao ^a,b   Yao, Jianping ^a,b,d,e  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d International Society for Optical Engineering SPIE   (United States)

^e OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber ring lasers; Homogeneous line broadening; Phase shifted fiber bragg gratings (FBGs); Photonic microwave signal generation; Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA); Single longitudinal mode (SLM)

Indexed keywords

FIBER RING LASERS; HOMOGENEOUS LINE BROADENING; PHASE-SHIFTED FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS (FBG); PHOTONIC MICROWAVE SIGNAL GENERATION; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER (SOA); SINGLE LONGITUDINAL MODE (SLM);

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; PHOTONS; RING LASERS;

MICROWAVE GENERATION;

EID: 33144489576     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.863064     Document Type: Article

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