Microwave photonic link with carrier suppression for increased dynamic range

Fiber and Integrated Optics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 161-174

  Meng, Xue Jun ^a,b   Karim, Adil ^a,b  

^a TITAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carrier filtering; Carrier suppression; Dynamic range; Electrooptic modulator; Mach Zehnder modulator; Microwave photonics; Noise figure; Optical amplifier; RF photonics

Indexed keywords

CARRIER FILTERING; CARRIER SUPPRESSION; MACH-ZEHNDER MODULATOR; MICROWAVE PHOTONICS; RF PHOTONICS;

AMPLIFICATION; BANDWIDTH; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT MODULATORS; NOISE ABATEMENT; PHOTONS;

MICROWAVE DEVICES;

EID: 33646233975     PISSN: 01468030     EISSN: 10964681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01468030600580161     Document Type: Article

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