photomixern.
/ˈfəʊtəʊmɪksə/, U.S. /ˈfoʊdoʊˌmɪksər/ Electronics.
A device that acts for light waves and terahertz waves as a mixer (mixer n. 5c) does for electrical signals.
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1955 Physical Rev. 99 1694/2 It is in the photoelectric mixing tube, or photomixer,..that the beat frequency is generated.
1975 Nature 13 Feb. 515/1 We have built a heterodyne spectrometer using..a HgCdTe photodiode as a photomixer.
2004 Appl. Physics Lett. 85 3983 This letter reports the fabrication and demonstration of an ErAs:GaAs interdigitated photomixer as a tunable THz source ranging from ∼20 GHz to ∼2 THz.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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