• DocumentCode
    1147735
  • Title

    Photonically assisted generation of continuous arbitrary millimetre electromagnetic waveforms

  • Author

    McKinney, J.D. ; Seo, D.S. ; Weiner, A.M.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA
  • Volume
    39
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    2/6/2003 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    309
  • Lastpage
    311
  • Abstract
    A novel optical-to-electrical technique for the generation of continuous periodic arbitrarily shaped millimetre-wave electromagnetic waveforms at centre frequencies of 50 GHz is demonstrated. Tailored optical pulse sequences from a novel direct space-to-time pulse shaper driving a high-speed photodiode enable generation of arbitrary phase- and frequency-modulated waveforms on a cycle-by-cycle basis.
  • Keywords
    fibre lasers; microwave photonics; millimetre wave generation; optical pulse shaping; waveform generators; 50 GHz; continuous arbitrary millimetre electromagnetic waveforms; cycle-by-cycle basis; frequency-modulated waveforms; high-speed photodiode; optical-to-electrical technique; phase-modulated waveforms; photonically assisted generation; space-to-time pulse shaper; tailored optical pulse sequences;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:20030183
  • Filename
    1179469