International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics

Reconfigurable photonic arbitrary waveform generation based on a single CW laser and low frequency electronics

Côme Schnébelin, Hugues Guillet de Chatellus

Published Oct 1, 2018• 0 citations

Abstract

We propose and demonstrate a new and simple concept of reconfigurable photonic generation of arbitrary RF waveforms, based on a recirculating frequency shifting loop seeded with a CW laser. We report arbitrary RF waveforms with specifications beyond state of the art photonic AWG techniques.

DOI: 10.1109/mwp.2018.8552837

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