Efficient Optical to Microwave Conversion

Modern-day communications often involve the use of specially designed fiber-optic channels as a guided wave propagation medium. Information is carried through this medium as a modulated light beam, which can then be received and utilized in a manner similar to traditional analog signaling. However, engineers are increasingly finding a greater use for fiber-optic communications in place of traditional, analog communications, mainly because of the significantly higher bandwidth, lower losses, and lack of interference possibility in fiber-optic channels.