Monolithically integrated photonic heterodyne system

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 2229-2234

  Ponnampalam, Lalitha ^a   Fice, Martyn J ^a   Pozzi, Francesca ^a   Renaud, Cyril C ^a   Rogers, David C ^b   Lealman, Ian F ^b   Moodie, David G ^b   Cannard, Paul J ^b   Lynch, Colm ^b   Johnston, Lilianne ^b   Robertson, Michael J ^b   Cronin, Richard ^b   Pavlovic, Leon ^c   Naglic, Luka ^c   Vidmar, Matjaz ^c   Seeds, Alwyn J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Ipswich Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Millimeter wave signal generation; monolithic integration; optical phase lock loop; photonic mixing; THz signal generation

Indexed keywords

FABRICATED DEVICE; HIGH-SPECTRAL-PURITY; MILLIMETER WAVE SIGNAL GENERATION; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATION; MONOLITHICALLY INTEGRATED; PHASE LOCK LOOPS; PHASE LOCKED; PHASE-LOCKING; SHORT SIGNAL; THZ SIGNAL; TUNING RANGES;

DELAY LOCK LOOPS; HETERODYNING; INTEGRATION; SIGNAL GENERATORS;

MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 79960676260     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2011.2158186     Document Type: Article

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