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, phasedarray antenna control with subarray antenna partitioning. Beam-former architecture extensions to two-dimensional antenna beam steering are described.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 983-996 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Applied Optics |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 10 Feb 1997 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Dispersive fiber
- One-dimensional steering
- Phased-array antennas
- Photonic beam forming
- Ternary designs
- Two-dimensional steering
- Wavelength multiplexing