Photonic Antenna: Nested multi-band patch antenna and arrayed photonic interconnect

本项目旨在研究宽带的设计。光子天线吗?用于机载雷达警告和电子对抗系统。该项目将研究开发一套印刷天线，覆盖2-40 GHz的频段，在单一基板上实现。嵌套这些天线以减小系统尺寸，并将研究该模块与定制光调制器阵列和射频信号合成器的集成。由此产生的具有光子互连的宽带天线套件将需要最少的制造和包装资源，因此将成为实用防御系统的经济可行的光子解决方案。

This project aims to investigate the design of a broadband ?photonic antenna? for airborne radar warning and electronic countermeasure systems. The project will investigate the development of a suite of printed antennas that cover bands in the range from 2-40 GHz realised on a single substrate. Nesting these antennas to reduce system size, and integration of this module with a custom optical modulator array and RF signal combiner will be investigated. The resulting broadband antenna suite with photonic interconnect will require minimal fabrication and packaging resources, and will thus be an economically viable photonic solution for practical defence systems.