High-power RF photodiodes and their applications

Laser and Photonics Reviews

Volumn 3, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 123-137

  Nagatsuma, Tadao ^a,b   Ito, Hiroshi ^c   Ishibashi, Tadao ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

High frequency; High power; Photodiode; Spectroscopy; Uni traveling carrier photodiode; Wireless link

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349213172     PISSN: 18638880     EISSN: 18638899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lpor.200810024     Document Type: Article

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