Theory of superconductive traveling-wave photodetectors

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1761-1768

  Ghamsari, Behnood G ^a   Majedi, A Hamed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Superconducting devices; Superconductive optical waveguides; Superconductive photodetectors; Terahertz (THz) photonics; Traveling wave optoelectronic devices

Indexed keywords

SUPERCONDUCTIVE OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; TERAHERTZ PHOTONICS; TRAVELING WAVE; TRAVELING-WAVE OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES;

ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; FILM PREPARATION; OPTICAL MULTILAYERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTODETECTORS; SIGNAL GENERATORS; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; WAVEGUIDES;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 68649121751     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2008.2007238     Document Type: Article

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