An LTCC-based wireless transceiver for radio-over-fiber applications

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 579-587

  Pergola, Luca ^b   Gindera, Ralf ^a,c   Jäger, Dieter ^a,c   Vahldieck, Rüdiger ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Low temperature co fired ceramic (LTCC); Optically fed antennas; Opto electronics; Radio over fiber; Transceiver; Wireless local area network (WLAN)

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BANDWIDTH; FREQUENCY MODULATION; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SILICON; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

LOW-TEMPERATURE CO-FIRED CERAMIC (LTCC); MOTHERBOARDS; OPTICALLY FED ANTENNAS; RADIO-OVER-FIBER;

TRANSCEIVERS;

EID: 33847787631     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2006.890527     Document Type: Article

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