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Experimental demonstration of passive microwave pulse amplification via temporal Talbot effect

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Autor(es):
Pepino, Vinicius M. ; da Mota, Achiles F. ; Borges, Ben-Hur V.
Número total de Autores: 3
Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
Fonte: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS; v. 13, n. 1, p. 11-pg., 2023-09-15.
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The temporal Talbot effect is a passive phenomenon that occurs when a periodic signal propagates through a dispersive medium with a quadratic phase response that modulates the output pulse repetition rate based on the input period. As previously proposed, this effect enables innovative applications such as passive amplification. However, its observation in the microwave regime has been impractical due to the requirement for controlled propagation through a highly dispersive waveguide. To overcome this challenge, we employed an ultra-wide band linearly chirped Bragg grating within a standard microwave X-Band waveguide. By utilizing backwards Talbot array illuminators aided by particle swarm optimization, we achieved passive amplification with a gain of 3.45 dB and 4.03 dB for gaussian and raised cosine pulses, respectively. Furthermore, we numerically verified that with higher quality substrates this gain can be theoretically increased to over 8 dB. Our work paves the way for numerous applications of the Talbot effect in the microwave regime, such as temporal cloaking, sub-noise microwave signal detection, microwave pulse shaping, and microwave noise reduction. (AU)

Processo FAPESP: 13/07276-1 - CEPOF - Centro de Pesquisa em Óptica e Fotônica
Beneficiário:Vanderlei Salvador Bagnato
Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Centros de Pesquisa, Inovação e Difusão - CEPIDs
Processo FAPESP: 21/06121-0 - Propagação de ondas eletromagnéticas em estruturas complexas
Beneficiário:Ben-Hur Viana Borges
Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Regular