A Review of Semiconductor-Based Monolithic Optical Phased Array Architectures

Focal-Plane Array Architectures: Horn Clusters vs. Phased-Array Techniques

The science goals of the SKA specify a field of view which is far greater than what current radio telescopes provide. Two possible feed architectures for reflector antennas are clusters of horns or phased-array feeds. This memo compares these two alternatives and finds that the beams produced by horn clusters fall short of fully sampling the sky and require interleaved pointings, whereas phased...

Phased Array of Phased Arrays for Free Space Optical Communications1,2

An aperture composed of multiple small apertures has several advantages over a large continuous aperture when practical issues are included in the analysis. For example, a single bullet can easily produce a catastrophic failure of the laser communication link if all the optical gain for the transmitter (or receiver) is derived from a single large-diameter telescope. In addition to battlefield c...

Advances in Optical Phased Array Technology

Commercially available Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCoS) Optical Phase Arrays (OPA) are capable of non-mechanically beamsteering up to ±3 degrees at 1550 nm. While the existing technology is useful for many applications such as laser communications and pulse-shaping, it is desirable to increase the steer angle and decrease the response time of the OPA. This was accomplished through a research ef...

Optical beam forming for phased-array antennas

communications spectrum from copper cables, optical fibres, microwaves, radio and electromagnetic compatibility. Our research concentrates on optical signal processing and networks, mobile communications, microwave techniques and radiation from ICs and PCBs [1]. A considerable (and particularly interesting) part of it is related to optical beam forming for phased array antennas, using optical r...

AlGaAs Phased Array Laser for Optical Communications