W-band waveguide photomixer using a uni-traveling-carrier photodiode with 2-mW output

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1455-1459

  Ueda, Akitoshi ^a   Noguchi, Takashi ^a   Iwashita, Hiroyuki ^a   Sekimoto, Yutaro ^a   Ishiguro, Masato ^a   Takano, Shuro ^a   Nagatsuma, Tadao ^b   Ito, Hiroshi ^b   Hirata, Akihiko ^b   Ishibashi, Tadao ^b  

^a NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Local oscillator (LO); Millimeter wave; Photomixer; Radio astronomy; Sub millimeter wave; Uni traveling carrier photodiode

Indexed keywords

GUNN OSCILLATORS; LASERS; MILLIMETER WAVES; PHOTODIODES; RADIO ASTRONOMY;

WAVEGUIDE PHOTOMIXERS;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0038732703     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2003.810154     Document Type: Article

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