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EMW Publishing, USA.; International audience; In most existing transmitted-reference ultra-wideband (TR-UWB) communication systems, receivers use the standard Gaussian approximation (SGA) for multiuser interference (MUI). It is an assumption used in most conventional multiuser systems, where the MUI tends to a Gaussian process by the central limit theorem, and convergence is relatively fast with respect to the number of users. However, for TR-UWB systems which are developed for short-range applications, we have a small number of active users. In this case, significant performance degradation is found in TR-UWB receivers due to the impreciseness of SGA. In this paper, we show that the Middleton class-A model is a more appropriate statistical model for MUI modeling in TR-UWB systems than the often used SGA. A closed-form expression for the probability density function (PDF) of the TR-UWB system under MUI, Gaussian noise and impulsive alpha-stable interference is developed. All these analytical results are confirmed by numerical simulations. (17 References).

International audience; We experimentally demonstrate the feasibility of the bandwidth tuning of a liquid-crystal based bandpass Lyot filter. This bandwidth tuning is achieved by applying a voltage to vary the birefringence of the liquid-crystal cells whose optical path difference takes predefined discrete values. We show that for a 2-stage liquid-crystal Lyot filter and at lambda i = 1.543 um, the measured 3-dB bandwidth varies from 17 nm to 60 nm when the applied voltage increases from 0 V to 5.24 V. The shape of the transmission response remains unchanged during the bandwidth tuning process.