Dispersion limitations of ultra-wideband wireless links and their compensation via photonically enabled arbitrary waveform generation

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 710-718

  McKinney, Jason D ^a,b   Peroulis, Dimitrios ^a,c   Weiner, Andrew M ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Broadband antennas; Matched filtering; Microwave photonics; Time domain techniques; Ultra wideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BANDWIDTH; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; MICROWAVES; PHOTONICS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BROADBAND ANTENNAS; MATCHED FILTERING; MICROWAVE PHOTONICS; TIME DOMAIN TECHNIQUES; ULTRA WIDEBAND (UWB);

TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

EID: 40549128043     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2008.916860     Document Type: Article

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