Traveling-Wave Photodetectors for High-Power, Large-Bandwidth Applications

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 1995, Pages 2291-2298

  Hietala, Vincent M ^a   Vawter, G Allen ^a   Brennan, T M ^a   Hammons, B E ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LOSSES; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; WAVEGUIDE JUNCTIONS;

TRAVELING WAVE PHOTODETECTORS (TWPD);

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 0029375676     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.414580     Document Type: Article

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