Quasi-optical Power Combining of Solid State Millimeter-wave Sources: a Proposal for Graduate Fellowship Final Report
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The goal of the research reported here was the development of a circuitbased modeling procedure for both the passive and active components of a quasi-optical power combiner. Contributions include the development of a multi-port equivalent circuit of a multi-element quasi-optical power combiner. Excellent agreement with experimental results was obtained. Mount independent techniques "were also developed for characterizing two terminal active --
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