20 GHz arbitrary radio-frequency waveform generator based on incoherent pulse shaping

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 26, 2008, Pages 21564-21569

  Torres Company, Víctor ^a   Lancis, Jesús ^a   Andrés, Pedro ^b   Chen, Lawrence R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ELECTRIC MACHINE CONTROL; LIGHT MODULATORS; LIGHT SOURCES; MAPPING; PULSE GENERATORS; RADIO WAVES; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

ELECTRICAL BANDWIDTH; ELECTRICAL SIGNAL; EXTERNAL MODULATION; GENERALIZED FREQUENCIES; MACH ZEHNDER MODULATOR; RADIO FREQUENCIES; WAVEFORM GENERATION; WAVEFORM GENERATORS;

PULSE SHAPING;

EID: 58149121152     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.021564     Document Type: Article

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