This book provides fingertip access to the principles that make optics useful for microwave/millimeter wave studies and clearly illustrates these principles by describing specific applications. Includes 108 figures and 163 equations.
Background andIntroduction. Ultrashort Optical Pulse Generation. Optical-Electrical Interaction Mechanisms. Experimental Techniques for Ultrafast Optical Measurements. Electro-Optic Sampling of High-Speed Devices and Circuits. Microwave and Millimeter Wave Experiments with Freely-Propagating Electromagnetic Transients. Optical Mixing for the Generation and Control of Microwave and Millimeter Wave Signals.