Direct Conversion of Free Space Millimeter Waves to Optical Domain by Plasmonic Modulator Antenna

Nano Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 8342-8346

  Salamin, Yannick ^a   Heni, Wolfgang ^a   Haffner, Christian ^a   Fedoryshyn, Yuriy ^a   Hoessbacher, Claudia ^a   Bonjour, Romain ^a   Zahner, Marco ^a   Hillerkuss, David ^a   Leuchtmann, Pascal ^a   Elder, Delwin L ^b   Dalton, Larry R ^b   Hafner, Christian ^a   Leuthold, Juerg ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

electro optic modulator; microwave photonics; Plasmonics; THz sensor

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; MICROWAVE SENSORS; MILLIMETER WAVES; MODULATORS; PHASE MODULATION; PLASMONS; PULSE CIRCUITS; TERAHERTZ WAVES;

ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS; ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATORS; ELECTRONIC AMPLIFICATION; HIGH-SPEED ELECTRONICS; MICROWAVE PHOTONICS; MILLIMETER WAVE SIGNALS; PLASMONICS; THZ SENSORS;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 84949670450     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b04025     Document Type: Article

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