Device Saturation Behavior of Submillimeter-Wave Membrane Photonic Transmitters

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 873-875

  Tien, Ming Chun ^a   Chang, Hsu Hao ^a   Lu, Ja Yu ^a   Chen, Li Jin ^a   Chen, Shih Yuan ^a   Wu, Ruey Beei ^a   Liu, Wei Sheng ^b   Chyi, Jen Inn ^b   Sun, Chi Kuang ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Low temperature grown GaAs (LTG GaAs); Millimeter wave; Photonic transmitter; Submillimeter wave; Terahertz (THz); Traveling wave photodetectors

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES; TUNING;

PHOTONIC TRANSMITTERS; TRAVELING WAVE PHOTODETECTORS;

TRANSMITTERS;

EID: 1642633823     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.823774     Document Type: Article

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