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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2018
Precision Optical Transceivers Inc., Rochester, NY (US);
David M. Calhoun, Victor, NY (US);
Barrett Bartell, Mendon, NY (US);
Precision Optical Transceivers Inc., Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
Feeding a plurality of antenna elements of an array antenna, involves receiving at a photonic substrate at least one transmit modulated optical carrier (TMOC) signal. The TMOC signal is communicated to an array level photonic integrated circuit (ALPIC) disposed on the photonic substrate where one or more optical processing operations are performed involving the TMOC signal to obtain a plurality of element-level optical carrier (ELOC) signals. These ELOC signals are communicated from the ALPIC to a plurality of conversion locations distributed on the photonic substrate. Photodetectors respectively provided at the conversion locations convert each of the ELOC signals to an element-level modulated radio frequency (ELMRF) signal. The ELMRF signal are coupled from each photodetector respectively to one of the plurality of antenna elements.