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.
Performance Study of a Ring Resonator-Based Optical Beam Forming System for Phased Array Receive Antennas
2007-11-01
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Conference paper
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British Library Online Contents | 2010
|Optical Beam Forming Techniques for Phased Array Antennas
British Library Online Contents | 1993
|British Library Online Contents | 2010
|British Library Online Contents | 2010
|Optical Beam Forming Techniques for Phased Array Antennas
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1993
|