McMaster University

$60,940.00 CAD

≈ 9 months of average Canadian pay
Department
National Research Council Canada
Program
Collaborative Science, Technology and Innovation Program - Collaborative R&D Initiatives
Recipient country
Canada
Fiscal year
2019-2020
Agreement period
March 24, 2020 – March 31, 2021
Reference
nrc-cnrc:172-2019-2020-Q4-947370

Published purpose

This development project will address key issues encountered with conventional electronic beamforming networks (BFN) used in space based Radio-Frequency (RF) phased array antennas. Those antennas are gaining in popularity thanks to the recent plans for low cost, large, Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation projects. Large bandwidth performances are thus expected to be much improved over the wide scan angles needed for operations in LEO. This feasibility study will evaluate a concept for a large scale true time delay optical beamforming for RF phased arrays.

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