Characterization of InGaAs self-mixing detectors for chirp, amplitude-modulated LADAR (CAML)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5412, Issue , 2004, Pages 99-110

  Aliberti, Keith ^a   Ruff, William ^a   Shen, Hongen ^a   Newman, Peter ^a   Giza, Mark ^a   Sarney, Wendy ^a   Stead, Michael ^a   Damman, John ^a   Mehandru, Rishabh ^b   Ren, Fan ^b  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

LADAR; Metal semiconductor metal detector; Optoelectronic mixer; Schottky enhancement layers

Indexed keywords

CARRIER TRAPPING; METAL-SEMICONDUCTOR-METAL DETECTOR; OPTOELECTRONIC MIXER; SCHOTTKY ENHANCEMENT LAYERS;

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRODES; MASKS; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; OPTICAL RADAR; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTODETECTORS; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES;

METAL DETECTORS;

EID: 10044261031     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.542072     Document Type: Conference Paper

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