The National Physical Laboratory has, for over 30 years, developed and maintained the UK’s primary RF and Microwave attenuation facility. Over this time there have been dramatic changes in the requirements for RF and Microwave Standards. This paper summarises the current facility and discusses the different measurement techniques that have been employed.

We study the wakefield in a plasma filled rectangular waveguide based on a differential equation derived in terms of the wake potential , when the pulse duration matches with inverse of the plasma frequency fp 1 . This equation is solved using fourth-order Runge-Kutta method for the Gaussian-like profile of the microwave pulse. The effects of microwave frequency f , waveguide width b and microw...

The broad bandwidth and low loss offered by modern photonics have led to an ever-increasing interest in the design and implementation of photonically assisted solutions for the generation, processing, control and distribution of microwave signals, an area called microwave photonics. In this article, a tutorial on microwave photonics is presented with an emphasis on optical generation of microwa...

Nonlinear dynamics of semiconductor lasers has found many interesting applications in microwave photonics technology. In particular, a semiconductor laser under optical injection of proper strength and optical frequency detuning can enter into the dynamical period-one (P1) state through Hopf bifurcation. The resulting optical output carries a broadly tunable high-speed microwave modulation with...

in this paper, a new method is introduced for improving the efficiency of the residue number system, which uses both binary and residue representations in order to represent a number. a residue number system uses the remainder of the division in several different modules. conversion of a number to smaller ones and carrying out parallel calculations on these numbers greatly increase the speed of...