Abstract
Optical microwave interactions in photonic devices are reviewed in the perspective of applications to optical communication systems. Laser sources, light modulators and photodetectors are successively considered, with emphasis on basic concepts of microwave photonics and their recent developments in new, faster and more efficient devices. The main advances concern dual-mode lasers, as well as modulators and photodetectors in the traveling-wave configuration.
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Les interactions optique-microondes dans les dispositifs photoniques sont passées en revue dans la perspective de leurs applications aux systèmes de communication optique. Les sources laser, les modulateurs de lumière et les photodétecteurs sont examinés successivement, en mettant l’accent sur les concepts de base de la photonique microonde et ses développements récents dans des dispositifs nouveaux, plus rapides et plus efficaces. Les principales avancées concernent les lasers bimodes, ainsi que les modulateurs et photodétecteurs en configuration d’ondes progressives.
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Minot, C. New devices for microwave photonics in optical communications. Ann. Télécommun. 58, 1432–1458 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03001739
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Key words
- Optical telecommunication
- Optical fiber transmission
- Optoelectronic device
- Millimetric wave
- Hybrid system
- Access network
- Wave dispersion
- Optical modulation
- Laser
- Distributed Bragg
- reflection laser
- Optical modulator
- Mach Zehnder interferometer
- Photodetector