PICOSECOND OPTOELECTRONIC STUDY OF A THIN FILM TRANSMISSION LINE STRUCTURE.

Abstract

Using photoconductively generated picosecond electrical pulses the properties of a transmission line structure consisting of coupled microstrip lines separated from a ground plane by a thin insulator layer are studied. In addition to the distortion of the transmitted pulses, the near-end and far-end coupled noise are characterized with picosecond resolution.