Photonic microwave arbitrary waveform generation using a virtually imaged phased-array (VIPA) direct space-to-time pulse shaper

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1936-1938

  Xiao, Shijun ^a   McKinney, Jason D ^a   Weiner, Andrew M ^a  

^a IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; LASER MODE LOCKING; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MICROWAVES; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

OPTICAL PULSE SHAPING; OPTICAL SPECTRAL DISPENSER; PHOTONIC MICROWAVE ARBITRARY WAVEFORM GENERATION; RADIO FREQUENCY PHOTONICS; VIRTUALLY IMAGED PHASED ARRAY;

INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS;

EID: 4043145078     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.831324     Document Type: Article

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