Broadband Microwave Measurements with Transient Radiation from Optoelectronically Pulsed Antennas

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1990, Pages 615-621

  Arjavalingam, G ^a   Pastol, Yvon ^a   Halbout, Jean Marc ^a   Kopcsay, Gerard V ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS--FOURIER TRANSFORMS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES;

BROADBAND MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; COHERENT MICROWAVE TRANSIENT SPECTROSCOPY; COPLANAR STRIPLINE ANTENNAS; OPTOELECTRONICALLY PULSED ANTENNAS; TIME-DOMAIN WAVEFORMS; ULTRAFAST PULSE GENERATION;

MICROWAVE MEASUREMENTS;

EID: 0025430521     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.54930     Document Type: Article

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