Broadband true time delay for microwave signal processing, using slow light based on stimulated Brillouin scattering in optical fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 22599-22613

  Chin, Sanghoon ^a   Thévenaz, Luc ^a   Sancho, Juan ^b   Sales, Salvador ^b   Capmany, José ^b   Berger, Perrine ^c   Bourderionnet, Jérôme ^c   Dolfi, Daniel ^c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^c THALES RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; FIBERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MICROWAVES; OPTICAL FIBERS; RADAR SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SLOW LIGHT; SPINNING (FIBERS); STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; ULTRASONICS;

DISPERSION PROPERTIES; IN-FIBER; MICROWAVE PHOTONIC FILTERS; MICROWAVE SIGNAL PROCESSING; MICROWAVE SIGNALS; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL CARRIER FREQUENCY; OPTICAL CARRIERS; PHASE COMPENSATION; PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS; RE-CONFIGURABLE; SIGNAL BANDWIDTH; TRUE TIME DELAY;

TIME DELAY;

EID: 78049516736     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.022599     Document Type: Article

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