Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Optical beamforming device using phased array antenna and operating method thereof
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Application No.: US17338911Application Date: 2021-06-04
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Publication No.: US11589140B2Publication Date: 2023-02-21
- Inventor: Oh Kee Kwon
- Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
- Applicant Address: KR Daejeon
- Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
- Current Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
- Current Assignee Address: KR Daejeon
- Agency: Rabin & Berdo, P.C.
- Priority: KR10-2020-0069215 20200608,KR10-2021-0057275 20210503
- Main IPC: H04J14/00
- IPC: H04J14/00 ; H04Q11/00 ; H01Q3/30 ; H04B10/556

Abstract:
An optical beamforming device includes an RF front-end transmitting or receiving RF signals and an optical beamformer forming or compensating for a time delay for each of the plurality of channels based on the RF signals. The optical beamformer includes E/O converters converting the RF signals into optical signals, respectively, a linear modulator generating an optical modulation signal based on an RF input signal, a TTD array outputting an optical combined signal obtained by compensating for a time delay degree of the input optical signals or outputting output optical signals, in each of which a time delay is formed for each channel, by distributing the optical modulation signal, a photo detector generating an RF output signal to an RF back-end based on the optical combined signal, and O/E converters converting the output optical signals into RF signals, respectively.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210385561A1 OPTICAL BEAMFORMING DEVICE USING PHASED ARRAY ANTENNA AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF Public/Granted day:2021-12-09
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