Delay Time in GaAs High-Power High-Speed Photoconductive Switching Devices

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 710-712

  Zu, L Q ^a   Lu, Y ^a   Shen, H ^b   Dutta, M ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER APPLICATIONS; PHOTOCONDUCTING MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM COMPOUNDS;

DELAY TIME; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; HIGH-POWER PHOTOCONDUCTIVE SWITCHING; PHOTOCONDUCTIVE SWITCHING DEVICES;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 0027608883     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: 19410174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.219719     Document Type: Article

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