Ultrahigh dispersion of broadband microwave signals by incoherent photonic processing

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 14752-14761

  Park, Yongwoo ^a   Azaña, José ^a  

^a INRS EMT   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

DOUBLE PULSE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATIONS; INCOHERENT SIGNALS; LINEAR FREQUENCY; MICROWAVE SIGNALS; PHOTONIC PROCESSING; SINUSOIDAL PULSE; STANDARD SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

MICROWAVES;

EID: 84886946024     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.014752     Document Type: Article

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