Title :
Low-loss and programmable integrated photonic beamformer for electronically-steered broadband phased array antennas
Author :
Zhuang, Leimeng ; Marpaung, David ; Burla, Maurizio ; Roeloffzen, Chris ; Beeker, Willem ; Leinse, Arne ; Van Dijk, Paul
Author_Institution :
Telecommun. Eng. Group, Univ. of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
Abstract :
We have reported the progress of the development of an integrated photonic BFN chip used in a Ku-band PAA system. Various test structures and building blocks have been characterized. The realized BFN chip features a waveguide propagation loss lower than 0.2 dB/cm, a bend radius of 125 μm and high design accuracy, fulfilling the required device characteristics.
Keywords :
antenna phased arrays; array signal processing; broadband antennas; microwave antenna arrays; Ku-band PAA system; broadband phased array antennas; electronically-steered antennas; integrated photonic BFN chip; programmable integrated photonic beamformer; waveguide propagation loss; Broadband antennas; High speed optical techniques; Optical filters; Optical ring resonators; Optical waveguides; Photonics; Propagation losses;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (PHO), 2011 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Arlington, VA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8940-4
DOI :
10.1109/PHO.2011.6110463
