Microwave photonic delay line with separate tuning of the optical carrier

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 1686-1688

  Morton, Paul A ^a   Khurgin, Jacob B ^b  

^a Morton Photonics   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Microresonators; Optical delay lines

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PHASE; DELAY LINE; MICRORESONATORS; MICROWAVE PHOTONICS; MICROWAVE SIGNALS; NEW CONCEPT; OPTICAL CARRIERS; OPTICAL DELAY LINES; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; PHOTONIC DELAYS; TRUE TIME DELAY;

ELECTRIC DELAY LINES; MICROWAVES; RESONATORS; TUNING;

WAVES;

EID: 70350716497     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2009.2031500     Document Type: Article

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