Time-domain optical sampling of nonlinear microwave amplifiers

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn 3, Issue , 1999, Pages 889-892

  Weiss, Manoja ^a   Crites, Matt ^a   Bryerton, Eric ^a   Whitaker, John ^a   Popovic, Zoya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURIED INTERCONNECT; NONLINEAR MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; OPTOELECTRONIC SAMPLER; OUTPUT WAVEFORMS; PHOTOCONDUCTIVE PROBE; TIME DOMAIN MEASUREMENT;

ELECTRIC WAVEFORMS; HARMONIC GENERATION; MESFET DEVICES; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0033362849     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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