Wideband true-time-delay beam former that employs a tunable chirped fiber grating prism

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 2273-2277

  Liu, Yunqi ^a,b   Yao, Jianping ^c   Yang, Jianliang ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FREQUENCIES; MICROWAVES;

OPTICAL CARRIERS;

PRISMS;

EID: 0042472828     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.002273     Document Type: Article

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