Nonlinear photodetection scheme and its system applications to fiber-optic millimeter-wave wireless down-links

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 47, Issue 7 PART 2, 1999, Pages 1342-1350

  Tsuchiya, Masahiro ^a   Hoshida, Takeshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Millimeter wave communication; Millimeterwave mixers; Nonlinear detection; Optical fiber communications; P i n photodiodes

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CABLE TELEVISION SYSTEMS; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MIXER CIRCUITS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHOTODIODES; SIGNAL DETECTION;

MILLIMETER WAVE COMMUNICATION; MILLIMETER WAVE MIXERS; NONLINEAR PHOTODETECTION; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATIONS;

OPTICAL LINKS;

EID: 0032641433     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.775477     Document Type: Article

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