Implementation of broadband microwave arbitrary-order time differential operators using a reconfigurable incoherent photonic processor

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1040-1050

  Park, Yongwoo ^a   Asghari, Mohammad H ^a   Helsten, Robin ^a   Azaña, José ^a  

^a INRS EMT   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fiber optics systems; microwave photonics signal processing; optical communications

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL OPERATORS; EULER'S APPROXIMATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN; FOURTH ORDER; GAUSSIANS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; MICROWAVE PHOTONICS; MICROWAVE SIGNALS; OPTICS SYSTEMS; PHOTONIC PROCESSING; PHOTONIC PROCESSORS; PHOTONIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; PROGRAMMABILITY; PULSE INTENSITY; PULSE WIDTH; RE-CONFIGURABLE; SECOND ORDERS; TIME DERIVATIVE; WAVE FORMS;

EULER EQUATIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; MICROWAVES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

EID: 78649802627     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2010.2091115     Document Type: Article

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