Microwave Photonics: Photonic Generation of Microwave and Millimeter-wave Signals

Techniques to generate microwave and millimeter-wave (mm-wave) signals in the optical domain will be reviewed, with an emphasis on the techniques for microwave generation based on heterodyne of two phase correlated wavelengths.

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