Development and antenna range demonstration of an eight-element optically powered directly modulated receive UHF fiberoptic manifold

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2499-2505

  Goutzoulis, Anastasios P ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g}   Zomp, John M ^b,g,h   Johnson, Andy H ^b,g,i,j  

^a IEEE

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^e CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^g Digital Laboratory of Democritos NRC ^*

^h UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^j WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; BANDWIDTH; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; MODULATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

PHOTOVOLTAIC CONVERTERS; ULTRAHIGH FREQUENCY FIBEROPTIC MANIFOLD;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 0030288909     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.548147     Document Type: Article

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