Coherent Optical Beam Forming with Passive Millimeter-Wave Arrays

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 418-425

  Blanchard, P M ^a   Greenaway, A H ^a   Harvey, A R ^a   Webster, K ^b  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b Sea Sector   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aperture antennas; Array signal processing; Millimeter wave antenna arrays millimeter wave imaging; Optical fiber applications; Optical image processing optical modulation; Phase measurement

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGHT MODULATION; MILLIMETER WAVES; PHASE MEASUREMENT;

OPTICAL BEAM FORMING; PASSIVE MILLIMETER WAVE ARRAYS;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 0033100065     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.749381     Document Type: Article

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