Phased-array antenna, maximum-compression, reversible photonic beam former with ternary designs and multiple wavelengths

    Authors

    N. A. Riza;N. Madamopoulos

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Appl. Optics

    Keywords

    photonic beam forming; phased-array antennas; ternary designs; wavelength multiplexing; dispersive fiber; one-dimensional steering; two-dimensional steering; TRUE-TIME-DELAY; BIREFRINGENCE; FIBER; Optics

    Abstract

    A novel, switched, photonic delay-line ternary design combined with a wavelength-multiplexed transmit-receive beam-former architecture is proposed. One-dimensional antenna beam steering by use of a single-channel, wavelength-dependent switched photonic delay line in cascade with a multichannel wavelength-independent switched photonic delay line is proposed for hardware-compressed, phased-array antenna control with subarray antenna partitioning. Beam-former architecture extensions to two-dimensional antenna beam steering are described. (C) 1997 Optical Society of America.

    Journal Title

    Applied Optics

    Volume

    36

    Issue/Number

    5

    Publication Date

    1-1-1997

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    983

    Last Page

    996

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:A1997WF87700001

    ISSN

    0003-6935

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