Toward a photoconducting semiconductor RF optical fiber antenna array

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 27, 2010, Pages 5163-5168

  Davis, R ^a   Rice, R ^a   Ballato, A ^b   Hawkins, T ^c   Foy, P ^c   Ballato, J ^c  

^a NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^b U S ARMY   (United States)

^c AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ENERGY GAP; FIBERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; PLASMA APPLICATIONS;

CRYSTALLINE SEMICONDUCTORS; DC PHOTOCONDUCTION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; OPTICALLY INDUCED; PHOTOCONDUCTIVE EFFECT; PHOTOCONDUCTIVE RESPONSE; RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNA ARRAYS; TRANSIENT ANTENNAS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 77957567694     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.005163     Document Type: Article

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