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Arbitrary waveform generation

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The use of silicon photonics has now enabled the creation of 60-GHz microwave waveforms with programmable amplitude, frequency and phase.

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Figure 1: Arbitrary microwave waveform generation based on optical spectral shaping and wavelength-to-time mapping.

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  1. Jianping Yao is at the Microwave Photonics Research Laboratory, School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada. jpyao@site.uottawa.ca,

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Yao, J. Arbitrary waveform generation. Nature Photon 4, 79–80 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2009.276

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