Passive millimeter wave imaging using a distributed aperture and optical upconversion

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7837, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Dillon, Thomas E ^a   Schuetz, Christopher A ^a   Martin, Richard D ^a   Shi, Shuoyuan ^b   MacKrides, Daniel G ^a   Prather, Dennis W ^b  

^a Phase Sensitive Innovations Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed aperture imaging; Optical upconversion; Passive millimeter wave imaging

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC STACK; DISTRIBUTED APERTURE IMAGING; ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATORS; HOMOTHETIC MAPPING; MMW SIGNALS; NEAR INFRARED; NON-LINEAR; OPTICAL CARRIERS; OPTICAL DOMAINS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; OPTICAL-UPCONVERSION; PASSIVE MILLIMETER WAVE IMAGING; POST PROCESSING; REALTIME IMAGING; SIGNAL OF INTERESTS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HORN ANTENNAS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; SENSORS; TERAHERTZ WAVES;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 78649849805     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.865081     Document Type: Conference Paper

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