This paper presents a tutorial on the field of femtosecond pulse shaping, a technology that
enables generation of nearly arbitrary, user defined, ultrafast optical waveforms, with control …

Microwave photonics, which brings together the worlds of radiofrequency engineering and
optoelectronics, has attracted great interest from both the research community and the …

In this paper, techniques to generate microwave arbitrary waveforms based on all-fiber
solutions are reviewed, with an emphasis on the system architectures based on direct space …

Photonic methods of radio-frequency waveform generation and processing can provide
performance advantages and flexibility over electronic methods due to the ultrawide …

A scheme for photonic generation of linearly chirped microwave waveforms (LCMWs) with a
large time-bandwidth product (TBWP) is proposed and demonstrated based on an optically …

We demonstrate photonic synthesis of broadband radio-frequency (RF) waveforms suitable
for ultra-wide bandwidth (UWB) systems via open-loop reflection-mode dispersive Fourier …

This paper reviews recent advances in photonic-assisted radio-frequency arbitrary
waveform generation (RF-AWG), with emphasis on programmable ultrabroadband …

Radar has been widely used for military, security and rescue purposes and modern radar
should be reconfigurable at multi-bands and have programmable central frequencies and …

An all-fiber approach to generate triangular-shaped pulses based on frequency-to-time
conversion is proposed and demonstrated. Two filter modules that have sinusoidal spectral …

In this paper, we propose and demonstrate an approach to optically generating chirped
microwave pulses with tunable chirp profile based on optical spectral shaping using a …