Sancho, J.Primerov, N.Chin, S.Antman, Y.Zadok, A.Sales, S.Thévenaz, Luc2012-02-292012-02-292012-02-29201210.1364/OE.20.006157https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/78234WOS:000301877700060We propose and experimentally demonstrate new architectures to realize multi-tap microwave photonic filters, based on the generation of a single or multiple dynamic Brillouin gratings in polarization maintaining fibers. The spectral range and selectivity of the proposed periodic filters is extensively tunable, simply by reconfiguring the positions and the number of dynamic gratings along the fiber respectively. In this paper, we present a complete analysis of three different configurations comprising a microwave photonic filter implementation: a simple notch-type Mach-Zehnder approach with a single movable dynamic grating, a multi-tap performance based on multiple dynamic gratings and finally a stationary grating configuration based on the phase modulation of two counter-propagating optical waves by a common pseudo-random bit sequence (PRBS).Fiber optics and optical communications : Nonlinear optics, fibersFourier optics and signal processing : Analog optical signal processingScattering : Scattering, stimulated Brillouintext::journal::journal article::research article