Three laser two-tone setup for measurement of photodiode intercept points

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 12108-12113

  Draa, Meredith N ^a   Ren, Jian ^a,b   Scott, David C ^c   Chang, William S C ^a   Yu, Paul K L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c Archcom Technology Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERMODULATION DISTORTION; MODULATORS; SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS;

ANALOG LINKS; DIFFERENT SLOPES; INTERCEPT POINTS; MODULATION DEPTH; OPTICAL POWER; SECOND ORDER INTERCEPT POINTS; THIRD ORDER INTERMODULATION DISTORTION; THIRD ORDER INTERMODULATION PRODUCTS;

PHOTODIODES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; SEMICONDUCTOR;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIGHTING; SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 49149118482     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.012108     Document Type: Article

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