Title :
RF-photonic generation of high-power ultrawideband arbitrary waveforms using predistortion
Author :
Bortnik, Bartosz ; Chou, Jason ; Jalali, Bahram ; Fetterman, Harold R. ; Poberezhskiy, Ilya Y.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA
Abstract :
By employing a predistortion technique tailored to a fiber dispersion based RF-photonic arbitrary waveform generator, we experimentally obtained desired ultrawideband RF waveforms with voltage amplitudes of more than 13 V in the presence of substantial gain and phase distortion
Keywords :
microwave photonics; optical distortion; optical fibre dispersion; waveform generators; RF-photonic generation; fiber dispersion; gain; high-power ultrawideband arbitrary waveforms; phase distortion; photonic arbitrary waveform generator; predistortion; High speed optical techniques; Optical attenuators; Optical distortion; Optical modulation; Optical signal processing; Optical solitons; Predistortion; Signal generators; Ultra wideband technology; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-803-9
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2006.215943
