Microwave Photonics: Current challenges towards widespread application

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 22862-22867

  Capmany, José ^a   Li, Guifang ^b   Lim, Christina ^c   Yao, Jianping ^d  

^a ITEAM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

DYNAMIC RANGE; HYBRID-ACCESS; MICROWAVE PHOTONICS; PROCESSING CAPABILITY; RADIO FREQUENCIES;

NEXT GENERATION NETWORKS;

EID: 84884570780     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.022862     Document Type: Article

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