Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Distributed feeding circuit for antenna beamforming array
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Application No.: US14262143Application Date: 2014-04-25
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Publication No.: US09651738B2Publication Date: 2017-05-16
- Inventor: Gerard Caille , Michel Sotom , Miguel Angel Piqueras Ruiperez , Teresa Mengual Chulia
- Applicant: THALES , DAS PHOTONICS S.L.
- Applicant Address: FR Courbevoie ES Valenica
- Assignee: THALES,DAS PHOTONICS S.L
- Current Assignee: THALES,DAS PHOTONICS S.L
- Current Assignee Address: FR Courbevoie ES Valenica
- Agency: Baker & Hostetler LLP
- Priority: FR1300972 20130426
- Main IPC: H01Q3/26
- IPC: H01Q3/26 ; G02B6/28 ; G02B6/293 ; H01Q3/00 ; G02B6/00

Abstract:
A distributed feeding circuit for antenna beamforming array comprises a plurality N of inputs and a plurality N of outputs, wherein the said circuit is adapted for receiving, on at least one input, an electrical signal at a microwave frequency, modulated on at least one optical carrier, the circuit comprising at least one assembly of at least two optical dividers, two delay lines of length zero or substantially equal to a fraction of the wavelength of the signal at its microwave frequency and two means for combining two optical signals, the assembly being arranged and the delay lines being configured so that the theoretical transfer function of the circuit is an orthogonal matrix.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140320346A1 DISTRIBUTED FEEDING CIRCUIT FOR ANTENNA BEAMFORMING ARRAY Public/Granted day:2014-10-30
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