Dispersion-enhanced photonic crystal fiber array for a true time-delay structured X-band phased array antenna

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 187-189

  Jiang, Yongqiang ^a   Howley, Brie ^a   Shi, Zhong ^a   Zhou, Qingjun ^a   Chen, Ray T ^a   Chen, Maggie Y ^b   Brost, George ^c   Lee, Charles ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Omega Optics Inc   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d AIR FORCE OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical true time delay (TTD); Phased array antenna (PAA); Photonic crystal fiber (PCF); Wavelength tuning

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CRYSTALS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); LASER TUNING; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS;

OPTICAL TRUE TIME DELAY (TTD); PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER (PCF); WAVELENGTH TUNING;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

EID: 12344254997     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.838623     Document Type: Article

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