Title
High-Speed High-Isolation 2 × 2 Fiber-Optic Switch For Wideband Radar Photonic Beamforming Controls
Keywords
Delay lines; Optical switches; Phased-array radar
Abstract
A new high-performance 2 × 2 fiber-optic switch is designed and demonstrated for wideband radar photonic beamforming controls. The switch deploys two bulk acoustooptic deflectors (AODs) in an imaging free-space symmetric optical design that exploits image inversion control via a Dove prism to form a 2 × 2 fully reversible low crosstalk noise high-speed switching structure. Experiments at the 1550-nm test wavelength show the switch to handle 0.5-W level optical input powers, < 2.2-μs switching time, < 2.6-dB fiber-to-fiber optical loss, better than 56-dB optical crosstalk levels, and < 0.2-dB polarization-dependent loss (PDL). © 2008 IEEE.
Publication Date
11-3-2008
Publication Title
Journal of Lightwave Technology
Volume
26
Issue
15
Number of Pages
2500-2505
Document Type
Article
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2008.927204
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
54949129385 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/54949129385
STARS Citation
Riza, Nabeel A., "High-Speed High-Isolation 2 × 2 Fiber-Optic Switch For Wideband Radar Photonic Beamforming Controls" (2008). Scopus Export 2000s. 9278.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2000/9278