Integrated Photonic True-Time Delay Beamformer for a Ka-band Phased Array Antenna Receiver

201811 citationsJournal Article

Authors

Vanessa C. Duarte · Instituto de Telecomunicações

João G. Prata · Instituto de Telecomunicações

Carlos Ribeiro · Instituto de Telecomunicações

Rogério N. Nogueira · Instituto de Telecomunicações

Georg Winzer · Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics

Lars Zimmermann · Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics

Rob Walker

Abstract

We demonstrate a silicon photonic 4×1 TTD beamformer operated in real-time. Beamforming of a 1 Gb/s QPSK signal carried at 28 GHz was validated by a fourfold improvement in output amplitude and EVM.

Topics & Keywords

Advanced Photonic Communication Systems Photonic and Optical Devices Optical Network Technologies

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Affordable and clean energy

Publication Details

Published in: Optical Fiber Communication Conference

DOI: 10.1364/ofc.2018.m2g.5

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