COMPARISON BETWEEN MIM AND SCHOTTKY DIODES AS HARMONIC MIXERS FOR VISIBLE LASERS AND MICROWAVE SOURCES

Authors
ACEF O HILICO L BAHOURA M NEZ F DENATALE P
Citation
O. Acef et al., COMPARISON BETWEEN MIM AND SCHOTTKY DIODES AS HARMONIC MIXERS FOR VISIBLE LASERS AND MICROWAVE SOURCES, Optics communications, 109(5-6), 1994, pp. 428-434
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics communications → ACNP
ISSN journal
00304018
Volume
109
Issue
5-6
Year of publication
1994
Pages
428 - 434
Database
ISI
SICI code
0030-4018(1994)109:5-6<428:CBMASD>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
We report our results on high order harmonic mixing between two visibl e lasers and microwave radiations in point-contact diodes. We have obs erved up to the 17th harmonic mixing order between two lasers (DELTAnu = 150 GHz) and a X-band klystron in a Schottky diode. We have been ab le to monitor very large laser frequency differences, up to 540 GHz (a lmost-equal-to 1.3 nm) with a good signal to noise ratio while using a very low power microwave source (20 mW/90 GHz). These results can be improved by using stabilized lasers and phase-locked microwave sources .