Predistortion technique for RF-photonic generation of high-power ultrawideband arbitrary waveforms

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2752-2759

  Bortnik, Bartosz ^a   Poberezhskiy, Ilya Y ^a,b   Chou, Jason ^a   Jalali, Bahram ^a   Fetterman, Harold R ^a  

^a Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Broadband amplifiers; Microwave generation; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical signal processing; Signal generators; Spatial light modulators (SLMs)

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT MODULATORS; MICROWAVE GENERATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; SIGNAL GENERATORS;

OPTICAL FIBER DISPERSION; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; PHASE DISTORTION;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33746916751     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2006.875943     Document Type: Article

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