A technique for the simulation of a microwave optical system is described. This technique, based on microwave CAD software, allows the simulation of the gain and noise performance. The optical devices are described using either an equivalent circuit approach or equation based models. The simulations of a simple RF optical link and of a more complex system, a microwave optical delay line frequency discriminator, are presented.
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