Tunable and reconfigurable multi-tap microwave photonic filter based on dynamic Brillouin gratings in fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 6157-6162

  Sancho, J ^a   Primerov, N ^b   Chin, S ^b   Antman, Y ^c   Zadok, A ^c   Sales, S ^a   Thevenaz L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHASE MODULATION; POLARIZATION-MAINTAINING FIBER; RECONFIGURABLE ARCHITECTURES;

BRILLOUIN; COUNTERPROPAGATING; DYNAMIC GRATINGS; IN-FIBER; MACH-ZEHNDER; MICROWAVE PHOTONIC FILTERS; ON DYNAMICS; OPTICAL WAVES; PERFORMANCE BASED; PERIODIC FILTERS; PSEUDO RANDOM BIT SEQUENCES; RE-CONFIGURABLE; SPECTRAL RANGE;

MICROWAVE FILTERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LIGHT; MICROWAVES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84858979920     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.006157     Document Type: Article

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