Title :
Photonic chirp compression and arbitrary waveform generation for micro and millimeter-wave applications
Author :
Renner, Christoffer J. ; Chang, Tiejun ; Reibel, Randy R. ; Tian, Mingzhen ; Babbitt, W. Randall
Author_Institution :
Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT, USA
Abstract :
A novel approach for the practical implementation of photonic arbitrary waveform generation of microwave signals is explored. Here we describe and demonstrate linear sideband chirp compression over 4 GHz bandwidth with a compression factor of < 15000.
Keywords :
chirp modulation; microwave generation; microwave photonics; optical pulse compression; microwave signals; photonic chirp compression; waveform generation; Bandwidth; Chirp; Frequency; Gratings; Optical materials; Optical pulse compression; Optical pulses; Optical signal processing; Probes; Signal generators;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-795-4
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2005.202418
