MILLIMETER-WAVE GENERATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A GAAS-FET BY OPTICAL MIXING

被引:16
作者
NI, DC [1 ]
FETTERMAN, HR [1 ]
CHEW, W [1 ]
机构
[1] CALTECH,JET PROP LAB,PASADENA,CA 91109
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10.1109/22.54929
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
Coherent mixing of optical radiation from a tunable CW dye laser and a stabilized He—Ne laser was used to generate millimeter-wave signals in GaAs FET’s attached to printed circuit millimeter-wave antennas. The generated signal was further down-converted to a 2 GHz IF by an antenna-coupled millimeter-wave LO at 62 GHz. Detailed characterizations of power and S/N under different bias conditions have been performed. This technique is expected to allow signal generation and frequency-response evaluation of millimeter-wave devices at frequencies as high as 100 GHz. © 1990 IEEE
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页码:608 / 614
页数:7
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