Active integrated filters for RF-photonic channelizers

Sensors

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1297-1320

  El Nagdi, Amr ^a   Liu, Ke ^a   LaFave, Tim P ^a   Hunt, Louis R ^a   Ramakrishna, Viswanath ^b   Dabkowski, Mieczyslaw ^b   MacFarlane, Duncan L ^a   Christensen, Marc P ^c  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c Southern Methodist University   (United States)

Author keywords

Active filters; Four port coupler; Photonic channelizer; State space representation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FILTERS; III-V SEMICONDUCTORS; INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; MICROELECTRONIC PROCESSING; MICROELECTRONICS; OPTICAL GAIN; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; STATE SPACE METHODS;

CHANNELIZERS; CONVENTIONAL MICROELECTRONICS; FOUR-PORT COUPLER; FRUSTRATED TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTIONS; INTEGRATED PHOTONIC CIRCUIT; PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; STATE - SPACE MODELS; STATE SPACE REPRESENTATION;

NOTCH FILTERS;

EID: 79952098330     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s110201297     Document Type: Article

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