Noise mitigation in spectrum sliced microwave photonic signal processors

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 4959-4965

  Yi, Xiaoke ^a   Minasian, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs); Microwave photonics; Optical noise; Photonic signal processing; Spectrum slicing

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; MICROWAVES; MODULATION; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PHOTONICS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

MICROWAVE PHOTONICS; OPTICAL NOISE; PHOTONIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 33847671742     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2006.884563     Document Type: Article

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