Optically Assisted Microwave Active Integrated Antennas

Siou Teck CHEW   Dennis T.K.TONG   Ming C. WU   Tatsuo ITOH   

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics   Vol.E79-C   No.1   pp.60-67
Publication Date: 1996/01/25
Online ISSN: 
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: INVITED PAPER (Special Issue on Optomicrowave Techniques and Their Applications)
Category: Optically Controlled Beam Forming Networks
Keyword: 
active antenna ,  optical-microwave interaction ,  

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Summary: 
This paper reviews some of the recent effort in the area of microwave-optical interaction as applied to enhance the utility of the active integrated antennas and arrays. The paper consists of two parts. In the first part, the optical bias is used as a hidden port to control the characteristics of the active integrated antennas. Two examples will be presented. In the second part, an optical carrier is used for remoting of active integrated antenna for beam control.