Photonic integrated circuits for radar beam control
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Photonic integrated circuits have the potential to reduce the volume and weight of optical beamforming networks for phased-array radar antennae by more than one order of magnitude, and will drastically reduce packaging and interconnection costs by integrating subcircuits, consisting of many components, on a single chip. Most work on optical beamforming networks reported so far has been based on discrete optical components. Here we describe a first realization of an integrated optical chip with dimensions less than 1x1 cm2 which can control amplitude and phase of 16 antenna elements.
TNO Identifier
95198
Source
Optical Processing & Computing - SPIE's International TG Newsletter, 10(1), pp. 6.
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6
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