Broadband extended dynamic range analog signal transmission through switched dual photonic link architecture

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 100-111

  Attygalle, Manik ^a   Gupta, Kamal ^a   Priest, Tim ^a  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

electronic warfare (EW); electrooptic modulation; noise; Optical fiber communication; radio frequency (RF) photonics

Indexed keywords

ANALOG SIGNALS; DETECTABLE SIGNAL; DEVICE PARAMETERS; DYNAMIC RANGE; ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATION; EXTENDED DYNAMICS; FEED-FORWARD GAIN CONTROL; GHZ FREQUENCIES; HIGH-SENSITIVITY RECEIVERS; INPUT POWER; MICROWAVE PHOTONIC LINKS; NOISE; NOISE BANDWIDTH; OPERATING RANGES; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION; OPTIMIZED PERFORMANCE; PHOTONIC LINKS; PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION; PULSED SIGNALS; RADIO FREQUENCY (RF) PHOTONICS; REALISTIC SIMULATION; SIMULATION RESULT; SWITCHING OPERATIONS; WIDE-BAND;

FIBER OPTICS; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; MICROWAVE LINKS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; RADIO; RADIO COMMUNICATION; RADIO WAVES; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

ELECTRONIC WARFARE;

EID: 79551619181     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2011.2106200     Document Type: Article

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