Complementary (Balanced) Heterodyne Receiver

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The schematic shows the basic construction of an optical heterodyne receiver employing complementary receivers. (10536 bytes)

This diagram shows an optical heterodyne receiver with a complementary photodetection system.  All the local-oscillator power is used, and two arrays of photodetectors.

 

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