Miniaturized synthetic aperture radar (mini-SAR) payloads are strongly demanded for enabling very innovative Earth observation small satellite missions providing images with sub-meter resolution. Unfortunately, currently available analog and digital electronic technologies still do not allow the fulfilment of the requirements imposed by those missions. Here we discuss how integrated microphotonics can be used to implement the most critical functionalities of a SAR instrument and report on some recent results obtained in the field of photonic integrated devices and circuits intended for RF beamforming and linearly chirped microwave waveform generation.
Microphotonics-based architectures of mini-SAR payloads / Armenise, Mario Nicola; Dell'Olio, Francesco; Ciminelli, Caterina; Galeone, Ciro; Brunetti, Giuseppe. - ELETTRONICO. - 2019-:(2019). (Intervento presentato al convegno 21st International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2019 tenutosi a Angers, France nel July 9-13, 2019) [10.1109/ICTON.2019.8840245].
Microphotonics-based architectures of mini-SAR payloads
Mario Nicola Armenise;Francesco Dell’Olio;Caterina Ciminelli
;Ciro Galeone;Giuseppe Brunetti
2019-01-01
Abstract
Miniaturized synthetic aperture radar (mini-SAR) payloads are strongly demanded for enabling very innovative Earth observation small satellite missions providing images with sub-meter resolution. Unfortunately, currently available analog and digital electronic technologies still do not allow the fulfilment of the requirements imposed by those missions. Here we discuss how integrated microphotonics can be used to implement the most critical functionalities of a SAR instrument and report on some recent results obtained in the field of photonic integrated devices and circuits intended for RF beamforming and linearly chirped microwave waveform generation.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
