Simultaneous Multi-Channel Microwave Photonic Signal Processing

• DOI: 10.3390/photonics4040044
• Publication Date: 2017-11-17T17:00:20Z
• Authors: Lawrence Chen; Parisa Moslemi; Ming Ma; Rhys Adams
• Keywords: SIGNAL (programming language)

Microwave photonic (MWP) systems exploit the advantages of photonics, especially with regards to ultrabroad bandwidth and adaptability, features that are significantly more challenging obtain in electronic domain. Thus, MWP can be used realize a number microwave signal processing functions including, amongst others, waveform generation radio-frequency spectrum analysis (RFSA). In this paper, we review recent results on fiber integrated approaches for simultaneous multiple chirped waveforms as well multi-channel RFSA ultrahigh repetition optical rate pulse trains.