Title :
Frequency downconverter for high-capacity fibre grating based beamformers for phased arrays
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Inf. Eng., Sydney Univ., NSW, Australia
fDate :
1/7/1999 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A novel all-optical microwave frequency downconverter is proposed which overcomes the effect of the optical beat-noise in X-band grating-based multi-beam phased arrays allowing a significant extension of the number of beams as well as minimum number of optical interconnects
Keywords :
antenna phased arrays; diffraction gratings; optical frequency conversion; optical interconnections; wavelength division multiplexing; X-band grating-based multi-beam phased arrays; all-optical microwave frequency downconverter; beamformers; high-capacity fibre grating; optical beat-noise; optical interconnects;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19990021
