Performance Study of a Ring Resonator Based Optical Beam Forming System for Phased Array Receive Antennas
A broadband, continuously tunable receiver system for phased array antennas is described. It uses a ring resonator based optical beamforming network, filter based optical SSB SC modulation and balanced coherent detection. The system is modeled as an equivalent RF two port system and its performance is analyzed, identifying and modeling dominant noise and distortion sources. Numerical theoretical performance results are reported for a satellite television case study, based on DVB S.
2007 14th IEEE Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux