Chirped microwave pulse generation using a photonic microwave delay-line filter with a quadratic phase response

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 569-571

  Dai, Yitang ^a   Yao, Jianping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arbitrary waveform generation; Chirped pulse generation; Microwave photonics; Nonuniformly spaced sampling

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY WAVEFORM GENERATION; CHIRP RATES; CHIRPED MICROWAVE PULSE; CHIRPED PULSE GENERATION; COMPLEX COEFFICIENTS; LINE FILTERS; LINE STRUCTURES; MICROWAVE PHOTONICS; MICROWAVE PULSE; NONUNIFORMLY SPACED SAMPLING; OPTICAL DOMAINS; PHOTONIC MICROWAVE; POSITIVE COEFFICIENTS; QUADRATIC PHASE;

MICROWAVE FILTERS; MICROWAVES; PHOTONICS;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 65649103014     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2009.2014966     Document Type: Article

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