Broadband phased array antenna steering by means of coherent signal combining in an integrated ring resonator-based optical beamformer
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coherent signal combining in an integrated ring resonator-based optical beamformer L. Zhuang, A. Meijerink, C. G. H. Roeloffzen, D. A. I. Marpaung, R. G. Heideman, M. Hoekman, A. Leinse, and W. van Etten University of Twente, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Telecommunication Engineering Group, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands LioniX B.V., P.O. Box 456, 7500 AH Enschede, The Netherlands Email: [email protected]
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