High Capacity Optical Interconnects for Phased Array Beamformers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1995, Pages 1116-1120

  Alameh, Kamal E ^a   Minasian, Robert A ^a   Fourikis, Nicholas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; LASERS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT MODULATORS; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; RADAR ANTENNAS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TRANSMITTERS;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS; LASER TRANSMITTERS; MULTIBEAM PHOTONICS; PHASED ARRAY BEAMFORMERS; POWER BOOSTERS; RADAR PHASED ARRAY; SUBCARRIER MULTIPLEXED SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS;

EID: 0029324364     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: 15582213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.390228     Document Type: Article

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