Spatial optical beam-forming network for receiving-mode multibeam array antenna - Proposal and experiment

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1425-1430

  Shibata, Osamu ^a   Inagaki, Keizo ^b   Karasawa, Yoshio ^c   Mizuguchi, Yoshihiko ^d  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^d KDDI CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Beam forming network; Microwave photonics; Multibeam receiving antenna; Optical spatial signal processing

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BEAM FORMING NETWORKS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 0036565626     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.999158     Document Type: Article

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