Photonically assisted generation of arbitrary millimeter-wave and microwave electromagnetic waveforms via direct space-to-time optical pulse shaping

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 3020-3028

  McKinney, Jason D ^a   Seo, Dongsun ^a,b   Leaird, Daniel E ^a   Weiner, Andrew M ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Myong Ji University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY MODULATION; MICROWAVE GENERATION; MILLIMETER WAVES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHASE MODULATION; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ARBITRARY WAVEFORM GENERATION; OPTICAL PULSE SHAPING; RADIO FREQUENCY PHOTONICS; ULTRAFAST OPTICS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 4544276915     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2003.822246     Document Type: Article

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