Performance Study of a Ring Resonator-Based Optical Beam Forming System for Phased Array Receive Antennas

Author

Meijerink, R. ; Meijerink, A. ; Marpaung, D.A.I. ; Roeloffzen, C.G.H. ; van Etten, W.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Twente, Enschede

fYear

2007

fDate

15-15 Nov. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

A broadband, continuously tunable receiver system for phased array antennas is described. It uses a ring resonator-based optical beamforming network, filter-based optical SSB-SC modulation and balanced coherent detection. The system is modeled as an equivalent RF two-port system and its performance is analyzed, identifying and modeling dominant noise and distortion sources. Numerical theoretical performance results are reported for a satellite television case study, based on DVB-S.

Keywords

antenna phased arrays; optical modulation; optical resonators; receiving antennas; DVB-S; balanced coherent detection; continuously tunable receiver system; equivalent RF two-port system; filter-based optical SSB-SC modulation; optical beam forming system; phased array receive antennas; ring resonator; Antenna arrays; Optical arrays; Optical beams; Optical distortion; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Optical resonators; Phased arrays; Receiving antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux, 2007 14th IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Delft

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1369-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1370-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SCVT.2007.4436250

Filename

4436250