Single-sideband electro-optical modulator and tunable microwave photonic receiver

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 58, Issue 11 PART 2, 2010, Pages 3167-3174

  Savchenkov, Anatoliy A ^a   Matsko, Andrey B ^a   Liang, Wei ^a   Ilchenko, Vladimir S ^a   Seidel, David ^a   Maleki, Lute ^a  

^a OEWAVES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Electro optical modulator; microwave photonics; microwave receiver; tunable microwave filter; whispering gallery modes

Indexed keywords

ELECTROOPTICAL MODULATORS; MICROWAVE PHOTONICS; MICROWAVE RECEIVER; TUNABLE MICROWAVE; WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

ELECTRIC FILTERS; MICROWAVE FILTERS; MICROWAVES; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 78449301353     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2010.2074890     Document Type: Article

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