Integrated chip-scale THz technology

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8031, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Wanke, Michael C ^a   Lee, Mark ^a,b   Nordquist, Christopher D ^a   Cich, Michael J ^a   Cavaliere, Melissa ^a   Rowen, Adam M ^a   Gillen, James R ^a   Arrington, Christian L ^a   Grine, Albert D ^c   Fuller, Charles T ^a   Reno, John L ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c LMATA Government Services LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterodyne Receiver; Quantum Cascade Laser; Rectangular Waveguides; Terahertz; Transceivers

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE POWER; CHIP-SCALE; COMPACT SOURCES; HETERODYNE RECEIVERS; INTRINSIC FREQUENCY; POWER LEVELS; SCHOTTKY DIODE MIXERS; SOLID-STATE SOLUTION; SOLID-STATE SOURCES; TERA HERTZ; THZ RADIATION; THZ TECHNOLOGY;

HETERODYNING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; QUANTUM THEORY; RADIO RECEIVERS; RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDES; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; SOLID-STATE SENSORS;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 79957995236     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.883612     Document Type: Conference Paper

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