DocumentCode
1479935
Title
Frequency downconverter for high-capacity fibre grating based beamformers for phased arrays
Author
Alameh, K.E.
Author_Institution
Sch. of Electr. & Inf. Eng., Sydney Univ., NSW, Australia
Volume
35
Issue
1
fYear
1999
fDate
1/7/1999 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
66
Lastpage
67
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;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:19990021
Filename
749227
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