Ultrabroad-bandwidth arbitrary radiofrequency waveform generation with a silicon photonic chip-based spectral shaper

Nature Photonics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 117-122

  Khan, Maroof H ^a   Shen, Hao ^a   Xuan, Yi ^a   Zhao, Lin ^a   Xiao, Shijun ^a,b   Leaird, Daniel E ^a   Weiner, Andrew M ^a   Qi, Minghao ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY WAVEFORM GENERATION; DATA TRANSMISSION RATES; DIGITAL-TO-ANALOG CONVERTERS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT TECHNOLOGY; MICRORING RESONATOR; PHOTONIC GENERATIONS; RADIO-FREQUENCY PULSE; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

BANDWIDTH; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PHOTONICS; TIMING JITTER; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

PHOTOMAPPING;

EID: 76449094436     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2009.266     Document Type: Article

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