Patent ID: 7167614

Claim:
A method for selectively attenuating the intensities of strong RF components of a RF signal, said method including: modulating an opto-electronic transmitter with said RF signal to produce a RF lightwave signal wherein at least one modulation sideband has more optical power than other sidebands of said RF lightwave signal; passing the RF lightwave signal through a Stimulated Brillion Scattering (SBS) medium having a given SBS interaction length; selecting the SBS interaction length of the SBS medium so that the optical intensity threshold for SBS is below the intensity of the at least one modulation sideband that has more optical power than other sidebands of said RF lightwave signal; and attenuating the intensity of the at least one modulation sideband that has more optical power than other sidebands of said RF lightwave signal as a result of SBS.