THz local oscillator sources: Performance and capabilities

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4855, Issue , 2002, Pages 435-446

  Mehdi, Imran ^a   Schlecht, E ^a   Chattopadhyay, G ^a   Siegel, P H ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

LO sources; Schottky diode multipliers; THz technology; Varactors

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCY MULTIPLYING CIRCUITS; GUNN DIODES; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; RADIO TELESCOPES; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SPECTROSCOPY; VARACTORS;

LOCAL OSCILLATOR; MICROWAVE SYNTHESIZERS; SCHOTTKY DIODE MULTIPLIERS; TETRAHERTZ TECHNOLOGY;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 0038579286     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459185     Document Type: Conference Paper

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