Tunable millimeter-wave frequency synthesis up to 100 GHz by dual-wavelength Brillouin fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 13321-13330

  Gross, Michael C ^a   Callahan, Patrick T ^a   Clark, Thomas R ^b   Novak, Dalma ^b   Waterhouse, Rodney B ^b   Dennis, Michael L ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Pharad LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

100 GHZ; BEAT FREQUENCY; BRILLOUIN FIBER LASER; DUAL WAVELENGTH FIBER LASERS; DUAL-WAVELENGTH; FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; MICROWAVE AND MILLIMETERWAVE; MILLIMETER WAVE FREQUENCIES; NOISE PROPERTIES; OUTPUT FREQUENCY; TERA HERTZ;

FIBER LASERS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; MICROWAVES;

EID: 77953815839     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.013321     Document Type: Article

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