Impulse radio ultrawideband pulse shaper based on a programmable photonic chip frequency discriminator

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 25, 2011, Pages 24838-24848

  Marpaung, David ^a   Chevalier, Ludovic ^b   Burla, Maurizio ^a   Roeloffzen, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b ENSIL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROPS; IMPULSE NOISE; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PHASE MODULATION; RADIO;

CMOS COMPATIBLE; DIFFERENTIATORS; DOUBLET PULSE; FIRST-ORDER; IMPULSE RADIO ULTRA-WIDEBAND; INTENSITY MODULATIONS; LOW COSTS; PHASE MODULATOR; PHOTONIC CHIPS; SECOND ORDERS; THERMOOPTICAL TUNING; UWB TRANSMITTER;

DISCRIMINATORS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL DEVICES; RADIO WAVES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 82955208598     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.024838     Document Type: Article

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