Maximum Directivity Beam-Former at 60 GHz with Optical Feeder

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 3040-3046

  Grosskopf, Gerd ^a   Eggemann, R ^a   Ehlers, Holger ^a   Kortke, A ^b   Kuhlow, Berndt ^a   Przyrembel, Georges ^a   Rohde, Detlef ^a   Zinal, S ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beam forming; Maximum directivity beam former algorithm; Microwave photonics; Mobile communications; Optical heterodyning; Phased array antennas

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); MICROWAVES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

OPTICAL FEEDERS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 0242696196     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.818785     Document Type: Article

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