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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 17, Issue 25, Pages 22553-22565Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.022553
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- National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada
- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
- Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT)
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We demonstrate a new photonically assisted reconfigurable radio-frequency waveform generator. The setup is based on phase modulating a multi-wavelength pulse source and subsequent compression in a dispersive medium. Under the appropriate conditions, we show that the photodetected electrical signal is broadband and coherent. Specifically, we show that this system allows for the synthesis of a reconfigurable finite-impulse-response filter where the number of filter taps is given by the number of wavelengths available from the multi-wavelength source and the reconfiguration is determined simply by their power and wavelength separation. We also show that this technique allows for time-multiplexing the synthesized waveforms, thus leading to an effective switching speed fixed by the clock rate. In particular, we show transitions between synthesized waveforms with a frequency content > 60 GHz in periods shorter than 100 ps. (C) 2009 Optical Society of America
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