Author:
Camponeschi Federico,Gemmato Valentina,Scotti Filippo,Rinaldi Luca,Mohammad Ahmad W.,Roeloffzen Chris G.,van Dijk Paul W.,Ghelfi Paolo
Abstract
This paper reports the first-ever demonstration of a multibeam optical beamforming based on a Blass matrix implemented in a hybrid photonic integrated circuit. The architecture serves as a Scan-on-Receive synthetic aperture radar for Earth observation.