Silicon-photonics-based wideband radar beamforming: Basic design

Optical Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Fathpour, Sasan ^a   Riza, Nabeel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Analog optical signal processing; Continuous optical signal processing; Fourier optics and signal processing

Indexed keywords

ANALOG OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ANTENNA ELEMENT; ARRAY SIGNALS; BEAM FORMERS; CONTINUOUS OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION RADAR; LEVEL DESIGN; LONG-RANGE RADARS; MONOLITHIC CHIP; OFF-CHIP; OPTICAL AMPLIFIER; OPTICAL ISOLATION; PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS; PHOTONIC DELAYS; PHOTONICS DEVICES; RADIO FREQUENCIES; SWITCHING TIME; VARIABLE OPTICAL ATTENUATORS; WIDE BAND RADAR;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; ANTENNAS; BEAMFORMING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTONIC DEVICES; RADAR; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME DELAY;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 76549113402     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3280286     Document Type: Article

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