Development and field demonstration of a hardware-compressive fiber-optic true-time-delay steering system for phased-array antennas.

We describe the design, fabrication, testing, and antenna-range demonstration of a photonic wavelengthmultiplexed true-time-delay steering system for use with broadband phased-array antennas. The prototype system is based on a unique hardware-compressive architecture and can drive 16 antenna elements over the 0.35-2.1-GHz band with 6-bit angular resolution over a ±45° scan angle.

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