Waveform sampling of free-running frequency prescaled microwave signals by using delay-line-free electro-optic probing technique

Author

Lin, Gong Ru ; Hung, Shr-Hsiung ; Chang, Y.-C.

Author_Institution

Graduate Inst. of Opto-Electron. Technol., Nat. Taipei Univ. of Technol., Taiwan

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

369

Abstract

We report the characterization of a microwave frequency divider by using a delay-line-free electro-optic sampling system with a voltage-controlled phase-tunable circuit. The distorted waveform of ECL signals frequency-prescaled from a microwave oscillator is sampled

Keywords

digital phase locked loops; microwave frequency convertors; microwave measurement; microwave photonics; signal sampling; waveform analysis; delay-line-free electro-optic probing; digital phase-locked-loop; distorted waveform; electro-optic sampling system; free-running frequency prescaled microwave signals; frequency-prescaled ECL signal; microwave frequency divider; microwave oscillator; optoelectronic phase shifter; picosecond laser source; voltage-controlled phase-tunable circuit; waveform sampling; Earth Observing System; Frequency; High speed optical techniques; Optical distortion; Optical filters; Optical pulses; Optical retarders; Propagation delay; Sampling methods; Voltage-controlled oscillators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 2001. APMC 2001. 2001 Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Taipei

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7138-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APMC.2001.985664

Filename

985664