Detection of Free-Running Electric Signals Up to 75 GHz Using a Femtosecond-Pulse Laser

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 1995, Pages 1189-1191

  Loffler T ^a   Pfeifer, T ^a   Roskos, H G ^a   Kurz, H ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPOLE ANTENNAS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; LASER MODE LOCKING; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FEMTOSECOND PULSE LASER; FREE RUNNING MICROWAVE SIGNALS; FREE RUNNING OSCILLATOR; PHOTOCONDUCTIVE DETECTION; PUMP PROBE DETECTION SCHEME;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0029393532     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: 19410174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.466586     Document Type: Article

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