Title :
Generation of tunable continuous-wave microwave signals using photonic techniques
Author :
Jia Haur Wong ; Aditya, Shivam ; Huy Quoc Lam ; Lee, Kenneth Eng Kian ; Peng Huei Lim ; Shum, Perry Ping
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore
Abstract :
This paper reviews two photonic techniques which have been recently proposed and demonstrated by us for generating tunable continuous-wave microwave signals. In general, both techniques are based on the photonic processing of a pulse-train generated by a mode-locked fiber laser.
Keywords :
fibre lasers; laser mode locking; microwave generation; microwave photonics; mode-locked fiber laser; photonic processing; photonic technique; pulse-train generation; tunable continuous-wave microwave signal generation; Microwave photonics; microwave signal generation; mode-locked fiber laser;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN), 2012 11th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chonburi
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4957-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4958-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICOCN.2012.6486229
