Octave Bandwidth Photonic True Time Delay Beamformer for SKA Demonstrator  
   

Realisation

Optical Signal Addition

 
Optical domain RF domain
 

Intensity modulated optical carrier demodulates to RF frequency, but two optical carriers demodulate to their difference frequency. Care has to be taken that this spurious signal lies out-of-band.

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HTML version of the poster presented at the SKA Workshop, Jodrell Bank Observatory,
3-5 August 2000
 


 
 
Title
Design
    (dis)advantages
    Existing antenna
    demonstator
Realisation
    Components
    Architecture
Measurements
    Antenna Patterns
    RF characteristics
Conclusions
     Future Work
    Acknowledgements