An optical heterodyne technique is a very effective procedure for a phased array antenna to generate and control a microwave signal with a particular phase shift. We developed a two-dimensional (2-D) Fourier transform optical signal processing (OSP) beam forming network (BFN). In the OSP-BFN, we use multi-layer polymeric optical waveguide arrays to make a 2-D specific phase-front and sample 2-D distributed light beams. These multi-layer optical waveguide arrays consist of three layers and 13 waveguides (4+5+4). We experimentally demonstrated 2-D beam steering in the X-band. Experimental results confirm the feasibility of the 2-D OSP-BFN.


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    Title :

    Two dimensional optical signal processing beamformer using multi-layer polymeric optical waveguide arrays


    Contributors:
    Akiyama, T. (author) / Inagaki, K. (author) / Ohira, T. (author) / Hikita, M. (author)


    Publication date :

    2002-01-01


    Size :

    539864 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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