Multichannel radio-frequency arbitrary waveform generation based on multiwavelength comb switching and 2-D line-by-line pulse shaping

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 891-893

  Torres Company, Victor ^a,b   Metcalf, Andrew J ^a   Leaird, Daniel E ^a   Weiner, Andrew M ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

Electrooptic modulators; microwave generation; microwave photonics; optical pulse shaping

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY WAVEFORM GENERATION; ARBITRARY WAVEFORM GENERATOR; BROAD BANDWIDTHS; CLOCK PERIOD; ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATORS; FOUR-CHANNEL; LINE-BY-LINE PULSE SHAPING; MICROWAVE PHOTONICS; MULTI-CHANNEL; MULTIWAVELENGTH; OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMBS; OPTICAL PULSE SHAPING; PULSE SHAPER; RADIO FREQUENCIES; SWITCHING COMPONENTS; SWITCHING SCHEME; SWITCHING TIME; TEMPORAL WINDOWS; TIME MULTIPLEXED;

LASER PULSES; MICROWAVE GENERATION;

SWITCHING;

EID: 84860289940     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2012.2190054     Document Type: Article

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