Optical frequency comb technology for ultra-broadband radio-frequency photonics

Laser and Photonics Reviews

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 368-393

  Torres Company, Victor ^a   Weiner, Andrew M ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave photonics; Optical communications; Optical frequency combs; Optical signal processing; Pulse shaping; Wireless communications

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; PHOTONICS; PULSE SHAPING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TECHNOLOGY; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB); UNITS OF MEASUREMENT; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ARBITRARY WAVEFORM GENERATION; COHERENT COMMUNICATION; HIGH REPETITION RATE; MICROWAVE PHOTONIC FILTERING; MICROWAVE PHOTONICS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMBS; RADIO-FREQUENCY PHOTONICS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 84899694388     PISSN: 18638880     EISSN: 18638899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lpor.201300126     Document Type: Review

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