title: Figures of merit for self-beating filtered microwave photonic systems.
abstract: We present a model to compute the figures of merit of self-beating Microwave Photonic systems, a novel class of systems that work on a self-homodyne fashion by sharing the same laser source for information bearing and local oscillator tasks. General and simplified expressions are given and, as an example, we have considered their application to the design of a tunable RF MWP BS/UE front end for band selection, based on a Chebyshev Type-II optical filter. The applicability and usefulness of the model are also discussed.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pérez
authors.forename: Ivana
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Gasulla
authors.forename: José
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Capmany
authors.forename: Javier S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Fandiño
authors.forename: Pascual
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Muñoz
authors.forename: Hossein
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Alavi