Highly dispersive photonic crystal fibers for true-time-delay modules of an X-band phased array antenna

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5360, Issue , 2004, Pages 253-258

  Jiang, Yongqiang ^a   Shi, Zhong ^a   Howley, Brie ^a   Chen, Ray T ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

PHASED ANTENNA ARRAYS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; TRUE TIME DELAY; WAVELENGTH TUNING;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; CURVE FITTING; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; PHOTONS; TUNING;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 4344580925     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.527992     Document Type: Conference Paper

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