Optically pumped frequency reconfigurable antenna design

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages 280-283

  Tawk, Y ^a   Albrecht, Alex R ^b   Hemmady, S ^a   Balakrishnan, Gunny ^b   Christodoulou, Christos G ^a  

^a University of New Mexico   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Frequency reconfigurable antennas; Optical switching; Silicon processing

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA STRUCTURES; COUPLING GEOMETRY; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; FREQUENCY RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNA; LIGHT ENERGY; LIGHT ILLUMINATION; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OPTICAL SWITCHING; OPTICALLY PUMPED; RADIATION PROPERTIES; RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNA; RF PERFORMANCE; SILICON PROCESSING; SILICON SUBSTRATES; STRIP LINE; THEORETICAL MODELS; WIRELESS DEVICES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESIGN; ELECTRIC SWITCHES; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 77951542358     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2010.2047373     Document Type: Article

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