Microwave photonics: Radio-over-fiber links, systems, and applications [invited]

Photonics Research

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2014, Pages B54-B63

  Xu, Kun ^a   Wang, Ruixin ^a   Dai, Yitang ^a   Yin, Feifei ^a   Li, Jianqiang ^a   Ji, Yuefeng ^a   Lin, Jintong ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Fiber optics and optical communications; Fiber optics links and subsystems; Metrology; Networks, combinatorial network design; Radio frequency photonics

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVES; PHOTONICS; RADIO LINKS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COMBINATORIAL NETWORKS; FIBER OPTICS AND OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS; FIBER OPTICS LINKS AND SUBSYSTEMS; MICROWAVE PHOTONIC (MWPS); PROCESSING CAPABILITY; RADIO FREQUENCY PHOTONICS; RADIO OVER FIBER LINK; RADIO OVER FIBERS (ROF);

RADIO-OVER-FIBER;

EID: 84922599059     PISSN: 23279125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.2.000B54     Document Type: Article

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