Title :
Broadband microwave frequency upshifting technique based on a general temporal Talbot effect in fibers
Author :
Azana, Jose ; Berger, Naum K. ; Levit, Boris ; Smulakovsky, Vladimir ; Fischer, Baruch
Author_Institution :
Inst. Nat. de la Recherche Scientifique - Energie, Materiaux et Telecommun., Montreal, Que., Canada
Abstract :
A microwave frequency upshifting technique based on a general temporal Talbot effect in fiber is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. This technique is ideally suited for broadband arbitrary waveform generation only limited by the photodetector bandwidth.
Keywords :
Talbot effect; microwave photonics; optical fibre communication; optical fibres; photodetectors; broadband arbitrary waveform generation; broadband microwave frequency upshifting technique; fibers; photodetector bandwidth; temporal Talbot effect; Bandwidth; Chirp modulation; Microwave frequencies; Microwave theory and techniques; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Optical pulses; Radio frequency; Talbot effect;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 2005. QELS '05
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-796-2
DOI :
10.1109/QELS.2005.1549271
