Conference proceeding
Optical Technology For Spacecraft Antennas
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, v 840, pp 169-174
03 Dec 1987
Abstract
The persistent trend to use millimeter wave frequencies for satellite communications and surveillance presents the challenge to design large aperture phased array antennas for various space applications. These arrays, now under consideration, will comprise of thousands of elements utilizing monolithic microwave integrated circuit modules, and will have a fiberoptic distribution network. New space vehicles, such as the space station, will contain several remotely-located antennas which must be connected to central processing units. The interconnecting of these remotely-located antennas will be done via fiber-optic links. Therefore, the two most important applications of fiberoptic distribution networks in spacecraft are antenna remoting and phased array distribution networks. These will be considered in this paper.
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- Title
- Optical Technology For Spacecraft Antennas
- Creators
- P. R Herczfeld - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, v 840, pp 169-174
- Publisher
- SPIE
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- [Retired Faculty]
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0023458889
- Other Identifier
- 991019174894004721