Reconfigurable and tunable flat-top microwave photonic filters utilizing optical frequency combs

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 1618-1620

  Song, Minhyup ^a   Long, Christopher M ^a,b   Wu, Rui ^a   Seo, Dongsun ^a,c   Leaird, Daniel E ^a   Weiner, Andrew M ^a  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c Myong Ji University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Flat top filters; microwave photonic filters; optical pulse shaping; reconfigurable filters

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; COMB FILTERS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL PULSE SHAPING; PHOTONIC DEVICES; WIENER FILTERING;

FLAT TOP FILTER; FLAT-TOP; MICROWAVE PHOTONIC FILTER; MICROWAVE PHOTONICS; OPTICAL-; PHOTONIC FILTERS; PULSE-SHAPING; RECONFIGURABLE; RECONFIGURABLE FILTERS; TUNABLES;

MICROWAVE PHOTONICS;

EID: 80054089625     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2011.2165209     Document Type: Article

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