Reconfigurable photonic generation of broadband chirped waveforms using a single CW laser and low-frequency electronics

Producing versatile radio-frequency chirped waveforms often requires complicated techniques. The authors use a fiber-optic frequency-shifting loop to create a low-complexity photonic chirp generator with high bandwidth and fully flexible properties for application in radar, spectroscopy, and imaging...

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Main Authors: Hugues Guillet de Chatellus, Luis Romero Cortés, Côme Schnébelin, Maurizio Burla, José Azaña
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04822-4