Kinetic inductive model of a millimeter-wave high-temperature superconducting optoelectronic mixer

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1974-1982

  Majedi, A Hamed ^a   Chaudhuri, Sujeet K ^a   Safavi Naeini, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Kinetic inductive photoresponse; Optoelectronic mixer; Superconducting optoelectronics

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MULTIPLEXING; PHOTODETECTORS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

KINETIC INDUCTIVE PHOTORESPONSE; MICROWAVE PHOTONICS; OPTOELECTRONIC MIXERS; SUPERCONDUCTING OPTOELECTRONICS;

OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES;

EID: 4544316825     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2004.830601     Document Type: Article

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