Title :
Chirped microwave pulse generation using a tilted fiber Bragg grating
Author :
Li, Ming ; Shao, Liyang ; Albert, Jacques ; Yao, Jianping
Author_Institution :
Microwave Photonics Res. Lab., Univ. of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Abstract :
A technique to generate a chirped microwave waveform based on spectral-shaping and wavelength-to-time-mapping using a tilted fiber Bragg grating (TFBG) is proposed. A 24.21-GHz chirped microwave pulse with a chirp-rate of 0.0070 GHz/ps is generated.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; chirp modulation; optical fibres; optical pulse generation; optical pulse shaping; chirped microwave pulse generation; frequency 24.21 GHz; spectral shaping; tilted fiber Bragg grating; wavelength-to-time-mapping;
Conference_Titel :
IEEE Photonics Society, 2010 23rd Annual Meeting of the
Conference_Location :
Denver, CO
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5368-9
DOI :
10.1109/PHOTONICS.2010.5699027
