Optical-fiber grating-based beamforming network for microwave phased arrays

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 45, Issue 8 PART 2, 1997, Pages 1513-1518

  Minasian, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bragg gratings; Microwave photonics; Optical fiber interconnects; Phase array antennas

Indexed keywords

CHIRPED BRAGG GRATINGS; MICROWAVE PHOTONICS;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; EQUALIZERS; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; PHOTODETECTORS;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

EID: 0031207926     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.618466     Document Type: Article

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