Frequency-quadrupling optoelectronic oscillator for multichannel upconversion

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 426-429

  Zhu, Dan ^a,b   Liu, Shifeng ^a,b   Ben, De ^a,b   Pan, Shilong ^a,b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b STATE KEY LABORATORY OF MILLIMETER WAVES   (China)

Author keywords

Frequency quadrupling; microwave photonics; optoelectronic oscillator; upconversion

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY-QUADRUPLING; HIGH QUALITY; LOW-FREQUENCY; MICROWAVE PHOTONICS; MILLIMETER WAVE SIGNALS; MULTI-CHANNEL; OPTICAL FILTERING; OPTO-ELECTRONIC OSCILLATOR; PHOTONIC MICROWAVE; POLARIZATION MODULATORS; TWO WAVELENGTH; UP-CONVERSION;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES;

EID: 84873655309     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2013.2240293     Document Type: Article

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