Distributed balanced photodetectors for broad-band noise suppression

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 47, Issue 7 PART 2, 1999, Pages 1282-1288

  Saiful Islam, M ^a   Chau, Tai ^b   Mathai, Sagi ^a   Itoh, Tatsuo ^b   Wu, Ming C ^a   Sivco, Deborah L ^b   Cho, Alfred Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Analog fiber optic links; Balanced photodetectors; Microwave photonics; Noise suppression; Optical receivers; Rf photonics

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL LINKS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTOCURRENTS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM COMPOUNDS; SHOT NOISE; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

ANALOG FIBER OPTIC LINKS; COMMON MODE REJECTION RATIO; MICROWAVE PHOTONICS; NOISE SUPPRESSION; RADIOFREQUENCY PHOTONICS;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 0032655847     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.775467     Document Type: Article

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