Development and field demonstration of a hardware-compressive fiber-optic true-time-delay steering system for phased-array antennas

Applied Optics

Volumn 33, Issue 35, 1994, Pages 8173-8185

  Goutzoulis, Akis ^a   Davies, Ken ^a   Zomp, John ^a   Hrycak, Peter ^a   Johnson, Andy ^a  

^a WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Delay line; Fiber optic manifold; Phased array antenna; Time delay steering; True time delay

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER CONTROL; COMPUTER HARDWARE; DELAY CIRCUITS; FABRICATION; FIBER OPTICS; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BINARY DELAY LINE; DEMULTIPLEXING; HARDWARE COMPRESSION; PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS; SPURIOUS FREE DYNAMIC RANGES; STEERING SYSTEM; WAVELENGTH MULTIPLEXED TRUE TIME DELAY;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0028731740     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.33.008173     Document Type: Article

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