Phased array beamforming using nonlinear oscillators

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5559, Issue , 2004, Pages 146-155

  Gabbay, Michael ^a   Larsen, Michael L ^a   Tsimring, Lev S ^b  

^a Information Systems Laboratories Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Array processing; Beamforming; Coupled oscillators; Nonlinear dynamics; Nonlinear signal processing

Indexed keywords

ARRAY PROCESSING; BEAMFORMING; COUPLED OSCILLATORS; NONLINEAR OSCILLATOR ARRAY (NOA); NONLINEAR SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SYNCHRONIZATION; TRANSMITTERS; VLSI CIRCUITS;

RADIO RECEIVERS;

EID: 15844415276     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.562903     Document Type: Conference Paper

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