Optical true time delay for phased-array antennas: Demonstration of a quadratic white cell

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 4912-4921

  Anderson, Betty Lise ^a   Liddle, Craig D ^b  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

^b JDS Uniphase   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELAY CIRCUITS; LIGHT MODULATORS; OPTICAL DEVICES;

QUADRATIC WHITE CELLS;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

EID: 0037055724     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.004912     Document Type: Article

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