Suppression of even-order photodiode nonlinearities in multioctave photonic links

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 2557-2562

  Hastings, Alexander S ^a   Urick, Vincent J ^a   Sunderman, Christopher ^b   Diehl, John F ^b   McKinney, Jason D ^a   Tulchinsky, David A ^a   Devgan, Preetpaul S ^a   Williams, Keith J ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SFA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

HF radio communication; Microwave photonics; Nonlinearities; Photodiodes

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVES; PHOTODIODES; POLARIZATION; RADIO COMMUNICATION;

ANALOG APPLICATIONS; HF RADIO COMMUNICATION; HIGH-FREQUENCY; INTER-MODULATION DISTORTIONS; INTERCEPT POINTS; MICROWAVE PHOTONICS; NONLINEARITIES; PHOTONIC LINKS; PHOTONIC RECEIVERS; SECOND HARMONICS;

HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS;

EID: 54949105498     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2008.927180     Document Type: Article

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