Abstract
We propose and experimentally demonstrate a fully reconfigurable microwave generator for chirped pulses based on the processing of an incoherent optical signal by means of a dispersive element with a non-uniformly optical spectral shaping. System performance has been proved by the generation of different chirped pulses. The capability for generating microwave pulses with positive and negative chirp has been shown achieving similar chirps in terms of magnitude and opposite sign. For it, chirp characteristic is introduced by the proper shaping of the signal power distribution of the optical source.
