Photonic beamformer for phased array antennas using a fiber grating prism

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 241-243

  Zmuda, Henry ^a,b   Soref, Richard A ^a,c   Payson, Paul ^c   Johns, Steven ^a,c   Toughlian, Edward N ^a,d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d ENSCO INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Gratings; Integrated optoelectronics; Microwave antennas; Optical fiber applications; Optical fiber delay lines; Phased arrays; Tunable lasers

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; CAVITY RESONATORS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; LASER TUNING; LIGHT MODULATORS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; PHOTODETECTORS; PRISMS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

BRAGG REFLECTION GRATINGS (BRG); OPTICAL FIBER DELAY LINES; PHOTONIC BEAMFORMER; TIME STEERED PHASE ARRAYS; TUNABLE LASER SOURCE (TLS);

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0031077693     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.553105     Document Type: Article

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