Widely tunable microwave photonic notch filter based on slow and fast light effects

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 167-169

  Xue, Weiqi ^a   Sales, Salvador ^b   Mork, Jesper ^a   Capmany, José ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coherent population oscillations (CPO); Microwave photonics; Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA); Slow light

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GROUND STATE; MICROWAVE FILTERS; MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS; MICROWAVES; MOTION ESTIMATION; NOTCH FILTERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; TUNING;

COHERENT POPULATION OSCILLATIONS (CPO); FILTER-BASED; MICROWAVE PHOTONICS; OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL FILTERING; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER (SOA); SLOW AND FAST LIGHTS; SLOW LIGHT; SPECTRAL RESPONSE; TUNABLE MICROWAVES; TUNING MECHANISMS; WIDELY TUNABLE;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 59649102735     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2008.2009468     Document Type: Article

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