• DocumentCode
    1323362
  • Title

    Improvement in microwave generation using optical difference frequency mixing

  • Author

    Hanlon, T.J. ; Fray, A.F. ; James, J.R. ; Lewis, M.F. ; Sample, P.

  • Author_Institution
    R. Mil. Coll. of Sci., Cranfield Univ., Swindon, UK
  • Volume
    33
  • Issue
    21
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    10/9/1997 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1808
  • Lastpage
    1809
  • Abstract
    The generation of microwaves by the mixing of two light waves in a nonlinear medium is demonstrated with an improvement of 20 dB over previous work. The technique is shown to be especially suited to the generation of stable millimetre and submillimetre waves
  • Keywords
    laser beam applications; microwave generation; millimetre wave generation; multiwave mixing; optical modulation; submillimetre waves; lasers; microwave generation; nonlinear medium; optical difference frequency mixing; optical phase modulators; stable millimetre waves; stable submillimetre waves;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19971198
  • Filename
    633407