Real-time full-field arbitrary optical waveform measurement

Nature Photonics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 248-254

  Fontaine, Nicolas K ^a   Scott, Ryan P ^a   Zhou, Linjie ^a   Soares, Francisco M ^a   Heritage, J P ^a   Yoo, S J B ^a  

^a University of California Davis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT DETECTION; EQUIVALENT-TIME SAMPLINGS; HIGH-SPEED DIGITIZERS; IN-PHASE AND QUADRATURE-PHASE; INSTANTANEOUS BANDWIDTH; OPTICAL MEASUREMENT; SILICON PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCIES;

BANDWIDTH; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; PHOTONIC DEVICES; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 77950519809     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2010.28     Document Type: Article

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