Self-Heterodyning Optical Waveguide Beam Forming and Steering Network Integrated on Lithium Niobate Substrate

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 1995, Pages 2395-2401

  Horikawa, Kohji ^a   Ogawa, Hiroyo ^a   Nakasuga, Yoshinori ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); HETERODYNING; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; MICROWAVES; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PHASE MODULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SUBSTRATES;

BEAM FORMING AND STEERING NETWORK (BFN); LITHIUM NIOBATE; OPTICAL FREQUENCY SHIFTER (OFS); SELF HETERODYNING;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0029378257     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.414594     Document Type: Article

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