Widely tunable single-bandpass microwave photonic filter employing a non-sliced broadband optical source

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 18423-18429

  Xue, Xiaoxiao ^a   Zheng, Xiaoping ^a   Zhang, Hanyi ^a   Zhou, Bingkun ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; IMPULSE RESPONSE; PHASE MODULATION;

BAND PASS; BASE BANDS; BROAD-BAND OPTICAL SOURCES; CONTINUOUS TIME; MICROWAVE PHOTONIC FILTERS; NON-COHERENT; OPTICAL CARRIERS; OPTICAL SLICING; PASS BANDS; TIME SHIFTS; WIDELY TUNABLE;

MICROWAVE FILTERS;

EID: 80052756165     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.018423     Document Type: Article

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