Title :
Millimeter-wave wireless beam-steering using patch-antennas with meandering-gaps on electro-optical modulator
Author :
Y. N. Wijayanto;A. Kanno;T. Kawanishi;H. Murata;Y. Okamura
Author_Institution :
Photonic Network Research Institute, Nat. Ins. Information and Communications Technology, 4-2-1 Nukui-Kitamachi, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8795 Japan
Abstract :
A new scheme for millimeter-wave wireless beam-steering using NxN patch-antennas with meandering-gaps on an electro-optic (EO) modulator is proposed for high-speed radio-over-fiber systems. The wireless receiving beam can be steered by controlling interaction between millimeter-wave and lightwave electric fields in EO modulation using meandering-gaps. Analysis and experimental demonstration of the proposed device for 40GHz millimeter-wave bands are reported. A 5×5 antenna array is designed for ±30 degrees wireless steerable beams. 5 and 25 variations of wireless beam-steering can be obtained for 1-D in xz-or yz-planes and 2-D in xyz-space, respectively.
Keywords :
"Wireless communication","Millimeter wave communication","Modulation","Electrooptical waveguides","Optical polarization"
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference (EuMIC), 2015 10th European
DOI :
10.1109/EuMIC.2015.7345126
