Terahertz information and signal processing by RF-photonics

IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 167-176

  Yoo, S J Ben ^a   Scott, Ryan P ^a   Geisler, David J ^a   Fontaine, Nicolas K ^b,c   Soares, Francisco M ^b,d  

^a Davis   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^d FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Integrated optoelectronics; optical modulation; optical pulse shaping; RF photonics; THz science

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY WAVEFORM; ARBITRARY WAVEFORM GENERATION; BANDWIDTH INFORMATION; FUTURE PROSPECTS; INVERSE PROCESS; LATTICE FILTERS; OPTICAL EQUALIZATION; OPTICAL PULSE SHAPING; RF-PHOTONICS; TERA HERTZ; THZ SCIENCE; THZ SIGNAL;

BANDWIDTH; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; LIGHT MODULATION; PHOTONICS; SIGNAL GENERATORS;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 84858284933     PISSN: 2156342X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2012.2185720     Document Type: Article

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