Integrated photonic Ku-band beamformer chip with continuous amplitude and delay control

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1145-1148

  Burla, Maurizio ^a,b   Marpaung, David ^a,c   Zhuang, Leimeng ^a   Leinse, Arne ^d   Hoekman, Marcel ^d   Heideman, Rene ^d   Roeloffzen, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b INRS EMT   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d LIONIX BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Microwave photonics; optical beamforming; optical ring resonators; phased array antenna; photonic signal processing; true time delay

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVE PHOTONICS; OPTICAL BEAMFORMING; PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS; PHOTONIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRUE TIME DELAY;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; TIME DELAY;

BEAMFORMING;

EID: 84878781534     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2013.2257723     Document Type: Article

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