Broadband antenna-integrated, edge-coupled photomixers for tuneable terahertz sources

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1498-1505

  Henning, Ian D ^a   Adams, Michael J ^a   Sun, Yun ^a   Moodie, David G ^b   Rogers, Dave C ^b   Cannard, Paul J ^b   Dosanjh, Sukhjiban Jeevan ^b   Skuse, Mark ^b   Firth, Richard J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b Centre for Integrated Photonics   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Photodetectors; Photomixer; Planar antenna; Submillimeter wave generation

Indexed keywords

BROAD-BAND ANTENNA; BROADBAND TERAHERTZ; COPLANAR LINES; PHOTOMIXERS; PLANAR ANTENNA; PLANAR ANTENNAS; SUBMILLIMETER WAVE GENERATION; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ EMISSIONS; TERAHERTZ SOURCES;

OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTODETECTORS; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 77956529167     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2010.2052353     Document Type: Article

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