Title :
Time-bandwidth product expansion of microwave waveforms using anamorphic stretch transform
Author :
Jiejun Zhang ; Asghari, Mohammad H. ; Jalali, Bahram ; Jianping Yao
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Abstract :
We show for the first time that a chirped fiber Bragg grating with specially engineered nonlinear group delay profile can be used to significantly increase the time-bandwidth product of a microwave waveform.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; microwave photonics; nonlinear optics; optical fibres; optical information processing; anamorphic stretch transform; chirped fiber Bragg grating; microwave waveforms; nonlinear group delay profile; time-bandwidth product expansion; Delays; Fiber gratings; Microwave communication; Microwave photonics; Optical filters;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA