Photodiode linearity requirements for radio-frequency photonics and demonstration of increased performance using photodiode arrays

2008 IEEE International Meeting on Microwave Photonics jointly held with the 2008 Asia-Pacific Microwave Photonics Conference, MWP2008/APMP2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 86-89

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

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SFA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Analog photonics; Microwave photonics; Nonlinearity; Photodiodes

Indexed keywords

HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; LINEARIZATION; MICROWAVES; MODULATION; PHOTODIODES; RADIO LINKS; TERNARY SYSTEMS;

ANALOG PHOTONIC LINKS; ANALOG PHOTONICS; HARMONIC OUTPUTS; INTERCEPT POINTS; MEASURED DATUMS; MICROWAVE PHOTONICS; NONLINEARITY; PHOTODIODE ARRAYS;

PHOTONICS;

EID: 58049208082     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWP.2008.4666641     Document Type: Conference Paper

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