Large-area traveling-wave LT-GaAs photomixers for LO application 66

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5498, Issue , 2004, Pages 525-536

  Michael, Ernest A ^a   Mikulics, Martin ^b   Marso, Michel ^b   Kordoš, Peter ^b   Lüth, Hans ^b   Vowinkel, Bernd ^a   Schieder, Rudolf ^a   Stutzki, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Local oscillator; LT GaAs; Photomixer; Photonic mixer; Terahertz; Traveling wave

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BOLOMETERS; ELECTRODES; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TRAVELING WAVE ANTENNAS; TUNING;

LOCAL OSCILLATORS; LT-GAAS; PHOTOMIXERS; PHOTONIC MIXERS; TERAHERTZ; TRAVELING-WAVE;

MIXER CIRCUITS;

EID: 12744253982     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551633     Document Type: Conference Paper

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