High capacity optical beam forming for phased arrays with fiber gratings and frequency conversion for beat noise control

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 4665-4670

  Minasian, Robert A ^a   Alameh, Kamal E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

BEAT NOISE CONTROL; OPTICAL BEAM FORMING;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

EID: 0032614013     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.004665     Document Type: Article

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