Optical Control of Microwave Semiconductor Devices

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1990, Pages 577-585

  De Salles, Alvaro Augusto A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS, MICROWAVE; MICROWAVE DEVICES; OSCILLATORS, GUNN; OSCILLATORS, MICROWAVE;

AVALANCHE OSCILLATORS; IMPATT OSCILLATORS; MICROWAVE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; OPTICAL INJECTION LOCKING; OPTICALLY PUMPED MIXERS; TRAPATT DEVICES;

OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES;

EID: 0025432202     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.54926     Document Type: Article

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