Experimental Investigation of Fiber Optic Microwave Link with Monolithic Integrated Optoelectronic Mixing Receiver

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 1995, Pages 2357-2360

  Liu, Qing Z ^a   MacDonald, R Ian ^a   Davies, Robert ^a  

^a TRLABS   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); FIBER OPTICS; FREQUENCY CONVERTERS; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; MESFET DEVICES; MIXER CIRCUITS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTODETECTORS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

FIBER OPTIC MICROWAVE LINK; METAL SEMICONDUCTOR METAL PHOTODETECTOR MIXER; OPTOELECTRONIC MIXING RECEIVER;

MICROWAVE LINKS;

EID: 0029375562     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.414588     Document Type: Article

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