Silica/electro-optic polymer optical modulator with integrated antenna for microwave receiving

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 3861-3867

  Herrera, Oscar D ^a   Kim, Kyung Jo ^a   Voorakaranam, Ram ^a   Himmelhuber, Roland ^a   Wang, Shiyi ^b   Demir, Veysi ^a   Zhan, Qiwen ^b   Li, Li ^c,d   Norwood, Robert A ^a   Nelson, Robert L ^e   Luo, Jingdong ^f   Jen, Alex K Y ^g   Peyghambarian, Nasser ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^c TIPD   (United States)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^e AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f Soluxra LLC   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrooptic modulators; microwave receivers; optical polymers; optical waveguides

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; LIGHT MODULATORS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHASE MODULATION; POLYMERS; WAVEGUIDES;

BROADBAND RESPONSE; ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATORS; INTEGRATED ANTENNAS; INTENSITY DIFFERENCE; MICROWAVE RECEIVER; MICROWAVE-RESPONSE; OPTICAL POLYMERS; POLING EFFICIENCIES;

MICROWAVE ANTENNAS;

EID: 84906860923     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2014.2316672     Document Type: Article

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