Photonic Sampling of Broadband QAM Microwave Signals Exploiting Interleaved Optical Nyquist Pulses

We performed photonic sampling of 6 Gbaud 16-QAM signals at 20 GHz sampling frequency by interleaving and time-aligning two 10 GHz Nyquist optical sampling pulse trains using a SMF as the dispersive medium.

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