Fault-Tolerant Multi-Beam Photonic Beamforming for Wideband Array Antennas

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5260, Issue , 2003, Pages 62-73

  Riza, Nabeel A ^a,b  

^a Nuonics Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; BANDWIDTH; ELECTRONIC WARFARE; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; GAIN CONTROL; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL LINKS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL SWITCHES; RADAR SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL BEAMFORMERS; VARIABLE OPTICAL ATTENUATORS (VOA);

PHOTONS;

EID: 1842422376     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.543178     Document Type: Conference Paper

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