Feasibility Study of Integrated Optical Phased Arrays for Indoor Gb/s Wireless Optical Links
Conference: ECOC 2009 - 35th European Conference on Optical Communication
09/20/2009 - 09/24/2009 at Vienna, Austria
Proceedings: ECOC 2009
Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Acoleyen, Karel Van; Baets, Roel (Photonics Research Group, Department of Information Technology, Ghent University - IMEC, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, 9000 Ghent, Belgium)
Rogier, Hendrik (Electromagnetics Group, Department of Information Technology, Ghent University, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, 9000 Ghent, Belgium)
Abstract:
Link budget calculations are performed to study the potential of integrated optical phased arrays for Gb/s wireless links. A link with two integrated OPAs is feasible with a beam steering range of a few degrees.