Highly tunable fiber-coupled photomixers with coherent terahertz output power

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 45, Issue 8 PART 2, 1997, Pages 1301-1309

  Verghese, S ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gallium materials devices; Hf transmitters; Optical demodulation; Photoconducting devices photomixers photomixing

Indexed keywords

DEMODULATION; DIPOLE ANTENNAS; ELECTRODES; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT MODULATION; LOW TEMPERATURE OPERATIONS; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL PUMPING; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SLOT ANTENNAS;

FIBER COUPLED PHOTOMIXERS;

PHOTOCONDUCTING DEVICES;

EID: 0031209033     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.618428     Document Type: Article

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