Ultrawide-bandwidth single-channel 0.4-THz wireless link combining broadband quasi-optic photomixer and coherent detection

IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 328-337

  Ducournau, Guillaume ^a   Szriftgiser, Pascal ^b   Beck, Alexandre ^a   Bacquet, Denis ^b   Pavanello, Fabio ^a   Peytavit, Emilien ^a   Zaknoune, Mohammed ^a   Akalin, Tahsin ^a   Lampin, Jean Francois ^a  

^a INSTITUT D ELECTRONIQUE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DES SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES DE LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Photomixers; terahertz (THz) communications; unitraveling carrier photo diode (UTC PD)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

BROAD-BAND ANTENNA; ELECTRONIC DETECTION; FREE-SPACE COMMUNICATION; NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES; PHOTOMIXERS; TERAHERTZ TECHNOLOGY; TERAHERTZ(THZ) COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 84900510993     PISSN: 2156342X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2014.2309006     Document Type: Article

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