Steering of an optically driven true-time delay phased-array antenna based on a broad-band coherent WDM architecture

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 144-146

  Taylor, Robert ^a   Forrest, Stephen ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave; RF

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; BANDWIDTH; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

TRUE TIME DELAYS;

MICROWAVE ANTENNAS;

EID: 0031671938     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.651141     Document Type: Article

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