Title :
Optical generation of linearly chirped microwave pulses using fiber Bragg gratings
Author :
Zeitouny, Avi ; Stepanov, Sander ; Levinson, Oren ; Horowitz, Moshe
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
Abstract :
We demonstrate a new method to generate broad spectrum microwave pulses with an adjustable chirp, using an optical system based on two fiber Bragg gratings and a mode-locked fiber laser.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; chirp modulation; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; microwave generation; microwave photonics; optical pulse generation; broad spectrum microwave pulse generation; chirp adjustment; fiber Bragg grating; linearly chirped microwave pulse; mode-locked fiber laser; optical generation; optical system; Bragg gratings; Chirp; Fiber gratings; Fiber nonlinear optics; Microwave generation; Optical attenuators; Optical filters; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical receivers;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 2005. QELS '05
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-796-2
DOI :
10.1109/QELS.2005.1549274
