A photonic microwave frequency quadrupler using two cascaded intensity modulators with repetitious optical carrier suppression

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 1057-1059

  Zhang, Jian ^a   Chen, Hongwei ^a   Chen, Minghua ^a   Wang, Tianliang ^a   Xie, Shizhong ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Microwave frequency quadrupler; Optical intensity modulator; Radio over fiber

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVE FREQUENCY QUADRUPLER; OPTICAL CARRIER SUPPRESSION MODULATION; OPTICAL INTENSITY MODULATOR; RADIO OVER FIBER SYSTEM;

FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT MODULATORS; MICROWAVE FREQUENCIES; MULTICARRIER MODULATION; NOTCH FILTERS; OPTICAL FILTERS; RADIO;

PHOTONICS;

EID: 34447329855     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.899462     Document Type: Article

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