On-chip CMOS compatible reconfigurable optical delay line with separate carrier tuning for microwave photonic signal processing

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 21475-21484

  Burla, Maurizio ^a   Marpaung, David ^a   Zhuang, Leimeng ^a   Roeloffzen, Chris ^a   Khan, Muhammad Rezaul ^a   Leinse, Arne ^b   Hoekman, Marcel ^b   Heideman, René ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b LIONIX BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL RESONATORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVES;

BUILDING BLOCKES; CMOS COMPATIBLE; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INTEGRATED PHOTONICS; MICROWAVE PHOTONIC FILTERS; MICROWAVE PHOTONICS; ON CHIPS; OPTICAL DELAY LINES; OPTICAL SIDEBAND FILTER; PHOTONIC CHIPS; PROCESSING FUNCTIONALITY; RE-CONFIGURABLE; REDUCED COMPLEXITY; WIDE-BAND;

MICROWAVE FILTERS;

EID: 80054908558     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.021475     Document Type: Article

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