Radio beam-steering via tunable Si3N4 optical delays for multi-Gbps K-band satellite communication

We realized a compact Silicon Nitride chip for optically reconfigurable time delays for K-band (17-22 GHz) radio satellite terminals beam-steering. Using 16-QAM 64-OFDM subcarriers we achieved 10 Gbps transmission capacity.

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