Low-noise and high-frequency resolution electrooptic sensing of RF near-fields using an external optical modulator

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1242-1248

  Sasagawa, Kiyotaka ^a,b   Tsuchiya, Masahiro ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b National Institute of Information and Communications Technology   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic field measurement; Electrooptic (EO) sensor; Optical modulator; Photonic heterodyning; Pockels effect

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LIGHT MODULATION; MODULATION; MODULATORS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; SENSORS;

BALANCED DETECTION; DIFFERENCE FREQUENCY; ELECTROOPTIC (CO); FREQUENCY RESOLUTIONS; HIGH FREQUENCY RESOLUTION; INTENSITY NOISES; LOW NOISE; MODULATED LIGHT; NEAR FIELD MEASUREMENTS; NEAR FIELDS; NEAR-FIELDS; NOISE LEVELS; OPTICAL INTENSITY MODULATORS; OPTICAL MODULATOR; PHOTONIC; RADIO FREQUENCY (RF); RF SYNTHESIZERS; SENSING SYSTEMS; SHOT NOISE LEVEL;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 46349105326     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2008.917036     Document Type: Article

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