The paper introduces a high gain end-fire printed antenna operating at 14 GHz with a bandwidth of 2 GHz. The 3x3 antenna sub-array formed of this element is used to present its beam steering and multi-beam-switching capabilities for millimeter wave Massive MIMO antenna arrays of 5G networks. The co-existence of these two techniques in a Massive MIMO sub-array, aided by the use of a simple two v...

In this paper, the performance of a digital beam steering antenna array, developed by NAVSYS Corporation, is presented for high accuracy differential and kinematic GPS applications. The NAVSYS’ High Gain Advanced GPS Receiver (HAGR). uses digital beam-steering to combine signals from an antenna array with up to sixteen elements and create a multi-beam antenna for up to eight GPS satellites simu...

Over the past 3 years, JPL has been heavily engaged in designing and developing a reduced-complexity optical communication terminal for high-data-volume applications. The terminal is called the Optical Communication Demonstrator (OCD) and has the ability to point microradian-level beams with a very small number of detectors and steering elements. Using only a single steering mirror and a charge...

A novel 8x8 optical phased array based on high-contrast grating (HCG) all-pass filters (APFs) is experimentally demonstrated with high speed beam steering. Highly efficient phase tuning is achieved by micro-electro-mechanical actuation of the HCG to tune the cavity length of the APFs. Using APF phase-shifters allows a large phase shift with an actuation range of only tens of nanometers. The ult...

This paper deals with the problem of adaptive beamforming under random array position errors to provide multiple-beam constraints and suppress jammers simultaneously. Using a steering matrix with each column vector corresponding to the steering vector of a selective beam and a constraint vector with each entry equal to the gain of a selective beam, we construct the quiescent weight vector and t...

Radio frequencies in bands around 28 GHz are being discussed as candidates for mobile communications of the fifth generation (5G). Beam steering will be a key feature in the context of 5G. It will be a major challenge to test the beam steering capabilities of base stations and user equipment in every phase from research and development through production. Conducted measurements will be mainly r...

Optical true time delay (OTTD) is an attractive way to realize microwave beam steering (MBS) due to its inherent features of broadband, low-loss, and compactness. In this Letter, we propose a novel OTTD approach named cyclic additional optical true time delay (CAO-TTD). It applies additional integer delays of the microwave carrier frequency to achieve spectral filtering but without disturbing t...

The paper presents a new practical design for 4 × 1 planar switched array of dielectric filled waveguide antennas loaded with bow-tie shaped slots operating at 26.5 to 29.5 GHz 5G millimetre-wave applications. is realized as three-layered architecture, the top layer behaving radiator, bottom feed network and control circuit; common ground plane in middle layer, offering small form factor. are u...

This paper presents a method of steering audible sound beams generated by parametric arrays in air. A hybrid system consisting of combined electronical / mechanical phased array technique is used. Although commercially available emitter technology has been used and therefore several guidelines known from prior-art phased arrays could not be realized, sufficient beam steering performance has bee...

It is shown that the azimuth radiation pattern direction of a multi-probe dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) can he changed by exciting different probes within the dielectric when the other probes are open-circuited. When two probes are excited simultaneously, smaller steering increments can be obtained without significantly changing the beamwidths. In some combinations, a pair of probes has a ...