Simplified optical dual beamformer employing multichannel chirped fiber grating and tunable optical delay lines

2008 IEEE International Meeting on Microwave Photonics jointly held with the 2008 Asia-Pacific Microwave Photonics Conference, MWP2008/APMP2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 110-113

  Thai, Pham Q ^a   Alphones, Arokiaswami ^a   Lim, Desmond R ^a   Wong, Vincent ^a   Huei, Kwok ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; MICROWAVES; PHOTONICS; WAVES;

CHIRPED FIBER GRATINGS; DIRECTIVITY; GROUP DELAY RIPPLES; MULTI BEAMS; MULTICHANNEL CHIRPED FIBER GRATINGS; OPTICAL-; SIMULATION RESULTS; SYSTEM COMPLEXITIES; TUNABLE OPTICAL DELAY LINES; TWO BEAMS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 58049213693     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWP.2008.4666647     Document Type: Conference Paper

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