Spectral line-by-line shaping for optical and microwave arbitrary waveform generations

Laser and Photonics Reviews

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 227-248

  Huang, Chen Bin ^a,b   Jiang, Zhi ^a,c   Leaird, Daniel E ^a   Caraquitena, José ^a,d   Weiner, Andrew M ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Optical fiber communications; Optical pulse shaping; Signal processing; Ultrafast processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 50649100692     PISSN: 18638880     EISSN: 18638899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lpor.200810001     Document Type: Review

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