System integration and radiation pattern measurements of a phased array antenna employing an integrated photonic beamformer for radio astronomy applications

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 789-802

  Burla, Maurizio ^a   Roeloffzen, Chris G H ^a   Zhuang, Leimeng ^a   Marpaung, David ^a   Khan, Muhammad Rezaul ^a   Maat, Peter ^b   Dijkstra, Klaas ^b   Leinse, Arne ^c   Hoekman, Marcel ^c   Heideman, René ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b ASTRON   (Netherlands)

^c LIONIX BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNA RADIATION; BEAMFORMING; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); METALS; MOS DEVICES; OPTICAL RESONATORS; OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; RADIO ASTRONOMY; TIME DELAY;

COMPLEMENTARY METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; INSTANTANEOUS BANDWIDTH; INTEGRATED PHOTONICS; PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS; RADIATION PATTERN MEASUREMENTS; SYSTEM INTEGRATION; WAVEGUIDE TECHNOLOGY;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

EID: 84863393867     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.000789     Document Type: Conference Paper

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