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Photonics Dictionary

heterodyning

In optical communications, the translation of optical signals into radio signals, lowering their frequency in detection from greater than 1014 Hz to less than 1010 Hz, so that further signal processing can be done with conventional circuitry, yielding improved receiver sensitivity and selectivity.
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