• DocumentCode
    2192647
  • Title

    A microwave non-contact identification transponder using subharmonic interrogation

  • Author

    Pobanz, C.W. ; Itoh, T.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • fYear
    1994
  • fDate
    23-27 May 1994
  • Firstpage
    753
  • Abstract
    A credit-card sized microwave transponder is presented for "wireless key" and surveillance applications. Based on a subharmonically pumped quasi-optical mixer, the transponder is activated by a C-band interrogation beam to upconvert and radiate a digitally modulated identification tone at X-band frequencies non-harmonically related to the interrogation signal.<>
  • Keywords
    biometrics (access control); microwave detectors; mixers (circuits); transponders; C-band interrogation beam; X-band frequencies; credit-card sized microwave transponder; digitally modulated identification tone; microwave noncontact identification transponder; subharmonic interrogation; subharmonically pumped quasi-optical mixer; surveillance applications; wireless key applications; Digital modulation; Frequency; Laser excitation; Optical modulation; Signal processing; Surveillance; Transponders;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Symposium Digest, 1994., IEEE MTT-S International
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA, USA
  • ISSN
    0149-645X
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-1778-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MWSYM.1994.335246
  • Filename
    335246