Photonics Research, Volume. 6, Issue 1, 12(2018)

All-fiber-photonics-based ultralow-noise agile frequency synthesizer for X-band radars

Juan Wei1,2、†, Dohyeon Kwon1、†, Shuangyou Zhang1, Shilong Pan2,3, and Jungwon Kim1、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, South Korea
  • 2Key Laboratory of Radar Imaging and Microwave Photonics, Ministry of Education, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Nanjing 210016, China
  • 3e-mail: pans@nuaa.edu.cn
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    Juan Wei, Dohyeon Kwon, Shuangyou Zhang, Shilong Pan, Jungwon Kim. All-fiber-photonics-based ultralow-noise agile frequency synthesizer for X-band radars[J]. Photonics Research, 2018, 6(1): 12

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    Paper Information

    Category: Microwave Photonics

    Received: Oct. 2, 2017

    Accepted: Nov. 16, 2017

    Published Online: Jul. 19, 2018

    The Author Email: Jungwon Kim (jungwon.kim@kaist.ac.kr)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.6.000012

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