W. van Etten

TL;DR: In this paper, a novel optical beamformer concept is introduced that can be used for seamless control of the reception angle in broadband wireless receivers employing a large phased array antenna (PAA).

TL;DR: In this paper, a ring resonator-based optical beamformer concept was used for seamless control of the reception angle in broadband wireless receivers employing a large phased array antenna (PAA).

TL;DR: In this paper, a ring resonator-based 1-times-8 optical beam forming network (OBFN) was proposed for phased array antenna systems, where a binary tree topology is used for the network such that a different number of ORRs is cascaded for delay generation at each output.

TL;DR: In this article, a conformal phased array antenna array for tracking an optical circuit is proposed that consists of a cascade of optical ring resonators, and the antenna elements of the conformal array are stacked patch antennas with dual linear polarization which have sufficient bandwidth.

TL;DR: It is proven that such an architecture has significant advantages with respect to a straightforward architecture using double sideband modulation and direct detection, namely relaxed bandwidth requirements on the optical modulators and detectors, reduced complexity and optical losses of the beam forming chip, and enhanced dynamic range.