Integrated 5-bit Microwave Photonic Beamformer for Broadband Phased Array Antenna Applications
Integrated 5-bit Microwave Photonic Beamformer for Broadband Phased Array Antenna Applications
- Author(s): Chen Zhu ; Liangjun Lu ; Weihan Xu ; Gangqiang Zhou ; Linjie Zhou ; Jianping Chen
- DOI: 10.1049/cp.2019.0773
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- Author(s): Chen Zhu ; Liangjun Lu ; Weihan Xu ; Gangqiang Zhou ; Linjie Zhou ; Jianping Chen Source: 45th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2019), 2019 page (4 pp.)
- Conference: 45th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2019)
- DOI: 10.1049/cp.2019.0773
- ISBN: 978-1-83953-185-9
- Location: Dublin, Ireland
- Conference date: 22-26 Sept. 2019
- Format: PDF
We report a microwave photonic beamformer on the silicon photonics platform. It contains a modulator, 8 switchable 5-bit true-time delay lines, and 8 photodiodes. The beam angle can be steered from -63.16° to 58.12° with a step of 40 for X and Ku bands.
Inspec keywords: elemental semiconductors; photodiodes; optical delay lines; antenna phased arrays; optical modulation; beam steering; silicon; broadband antennas; microwave photonics
Subjects: Optical beam modulators; Photoelectric devices; Antenna arrays; Microwave photonics
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