Optically produced true-time delays for phased antenna arrays

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 32, 1997, Pages 8493-8503

  Anderson, Betty Lise ^a   Collins, Stuart A ^a   Beecher, Elizabeth A ^a   Klein, Charles A ^a   Brown, Stephen B ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Phased array antennas; True time delay

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010054973     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.008493     Document Type: Article

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