Broad-band (>20 GHz) laser-diode-based optoelectronic microwave phase shifter

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 46, Issue 10 PART 1, 1998, Pages 1419-1426

  Lin, Gong Ru ^a,b,c   Hwang, Tzung Shi ^a,b   Chuang, Y H ^a,b   Wang, S C ^c   Pan, Ci Ling ^a,b,c  

^a IEEE   (Taiwan)

^b TATUNG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Microwave; Optoelectronic; Phase shifter

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001192709     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.721143     Document Type: Article

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