Traveling-wave uni-traveling carrier photodiodes for continuous wave THz generation

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 11105-11110

  Rouvalis, Efthymios ^a   Renaud, Cyril C ^a   Moodie, David G ^b   Robertson, Michael J ^b   Seeds, Alwyn J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Centre for Integrated Photonics   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY RESPONSE; PHOTODIODES; TRAVELING WAVE ANTENNAS;

CONTINUOUS WAVE; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; FIGURE OF MERIT; RESONANT ANTENNAS; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ GENERATION; THZ GENERATION; TRAVELING WAVE; UNI-TRAVELING CARRIER PHOTODIODE;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; SEMICONDUCTOR; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHTING; SEMICONDUCTORS; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EID: 77952821173     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.011105     Document Type: Article

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