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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2026
Filed:
May. 24, 2023
Phase Sensitive Innovations, Inc., Newark, DE (US);
Dennis Prather, Newark, DE (US);
Janusz Murakowski, Bear, DE (US);
Christopher Schuetz, Avondale, PA (US);
Garrett Schneider, New Castle, DE (US);
Shouyuan Shi, Newark, DE (US);
Timothy Creazzo, West Grove, PA (US);
Phase Sensitive Innovations, Inc., Newark, DE (US);
Abstract
A Luneburg lens-based radio head for a receiver, transmitter or transceiver may comprise a Luneburg lens or equivalent lens and a plurality of electro-optic modules. The electro-optic modules provide a conversion between RF sector beam at the Luneburg lens and an optical signal containing the information of the RF sector beam. When the radio head comprises a receiver, up-conversion modules formed on a surface of the Luneburg lens. Each of the up-conversion modules includes an antenna element, which picks up the incoming focused RF beam and converts it to an RF electric signal, and an electro-optic modulator that up-converts the RF electric signal to the optical domain by modulating an optical carrier with the RF electrical signal provided by the antenna element. The up-converted optical signal may be transmitted to a processor via an optical fiber for downstream processing.