A 100-GHz-tunable photonic millimeter wave synthesizer for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array radiotelescope

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 349-352

  Cliche, Jean François ^a   Shillue, Bill ^b   Têtu, Michel ^a   Poulin, Michel ^a  

^a TERAXION   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Millimeter wave generation; Optical phase locked loops; Phase noise; Semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; PHASE NOISE; RADIO TELESCOPES; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

JUNCTION TEMPERATURE; MILLIMETER WAVE GENERATION; OPTICAL PHASE LOCKED LOOPS;

FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZERS;

EID: 34748818846     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2007.380442     Document Type: Conference Paper

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