Flexible RF-based comb generator

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 701-704

  Mishra, Arvind K ^a,b   Schmogrow, Rene ^a   Tomkos, Ioannis ^c   Hillerkuss, David ^a   Koos, Christian ^a   Freude, Wolfgang ^a   Leuthold, Juerg ^a,d  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Sterlite Technologies Ltd   (India)

^c ATHENS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Optical communications; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM); radio frequency photonics

Indexed keywords

CENTER WAVELENGTH; DOUBLE FREQUENCY; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; MACH ZEHNDER MODULATOR; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RADIO FREQUENCY PHOTONICS; SPECTRAL FLATNESS; SUB-CARRIER SPACINGS;

LIGHT MODULATORS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; RADIO WAVES;

ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 84875623951     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2013.2249509     Document Type: Article

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