Photonic generation of chirped millimeter-wave pulses based on nonlinear frequency-to-time mapping in a nonlinearly chirped fiber bragg grating

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 542-553

  Wang, Chao ^b   Yao, Jianping ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chirped pulse generation, chromatic dispersion; Frequency to time mapping; Microwave photonics; Nonlinearly chirped fiber Bragg grating (NL CFBG); Pulse compression; Radar

Indexed keywords

BRAGG GRATINGS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONICS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CHIRPED PULSE GENERATION; NONLINEARLY CHIRPED FIBER BRAGG GRATING (NL-CFBG);

MILLIMETER WAVES;

EID: 38849089307     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2007.914639     Document Type: Article

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