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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Photonically assisted RF generator with incoherent sources

J. LancisPedro AndrésV. Torres-companyLawrence R. Chen

subject

PhysicsSignal generatorbusiness.industryBandwidth (signal processing)ComputingMilieux_PERSONALCOMPUTINGElectrical engineeringBroadband communicationOpticsBroadbandHardware_INTEGRATEDCIRCUITSWaveformBroadband amplifiersRadio frequencyPhotonicsbusiness

description

An RF waveform generator operating with incoherent broadband light is successfully implemented. Complex RF ~10 GHz bandwidth waveforms are generated by means of incoherent wavelength-to-time mapping. Our technique can be scaled to the mm-wave range.

https://doi.org/10.1109/oeccacoft.2008.4610464