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17-Feb-17

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ScyLight Industry Day8 February, 2017

ESTEC, Noordwijk

Paulus van Dijk

Vice President Strategy and Innovation

17-Feb-17 ScyLight Industry Day, 8 Feb 2017

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Integrated Microwave Photonics*MWP link: low loss signal transport/distribution

Functionalities• filtering• delay• freq. up/down

conversion…

MWP system: wideband, reconfigurable RF signal processing

Integrated MWP: PICs for advantage in size, weight and power

* THAG RF MEMS Harmonisation, April 2, 2014 and Ground Station Technology Harmonisation, February 1, 2016



Activities and iMWP products

• Requires a large numberof analog photonic link

• Using direct modulation is very attractive and Cost effective

• Multi-octave = broadband

• Wide angle, Squint-free beamforming for 500 MHz-1500MHz

Radio Astronomy

• TTD OpticalBeamformer

• Ku-Band 8x8 Array,• Rx, Dual polarization• Control electronics

Avionics SOTM



Activities and iMWP products*

• Ku-Band Downlink: 12.75 – 14.5 GHz

• Blass-matrix OBFN

• 36 beams

• 144 antennas (12x12 aray)

Unit cell

* ESA CONTRACT 4000106283/12/NL/NR, ARTES 1

High Throughput Satellites

Spot Beams




Entire 255x36 Nolen matrix + detail

Footprint: 100x90 mm2





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• Blass-matrix OBFN ; 36 beams

• alpha =-6 till +2 degree ; beta = +3 till +11 degree

• Suppression between main-beam and side-lobes 14 dB




Integrated Optical Beamformer*

SATCOM Multi beaming:

8 x 8 Blass matrix

8 antenna ports

8 beam ports

Independently steerable

Ku-band satcom

Up to 13 GHz

Transmitter or Receiver

Optional: high gain SOA

36 bond pads on InP

228 bond pads on TriPleX

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32 mm1

6 m

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* 10th ESA MNT Conference Noordwijk, 8-12 Nov. 2016

ScyLight Industry Day, 8 Feb 2017


Activities and iMWP


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Start End Start End

IO-MAST Integrated Optics based True Time Delay Module

for Application in (Space) Telecom

155 PEP2004 61314 LIO completed 2 3 01-10-03 20-11-04

IO-BFN Integrated Optics based Beam Forming Network Module for Phased Array Antennae 346 PEP2004 61424 LIO completed 2 3 01-10-04 01-04-06

Smart /FlySmart Smart Antenna systems for Radio Transceivers 887 PIDEA/STW ISO 53030 completed 2 4 31-05-05 31-12-08

IO-BFNSYS Integrated Optics based Beam Forming

Network SYStem for Phased Array Antennae

203 PEP2006 61629 LIO completed 2 4 01-04-06 01-07-07

Broadband Photonic

Beamformer

Ring resonator based photonic beamformer for array antennas 771 STW ISO 52081 completed 2 4 01-07-06 01-07-09

IO-spACT Space Compatible IO Actuation for Switching and Beam Forming 374 PEP2007 61718 LIO completed 2 4 01-05-07 31-03-10

Photonic Base I Study on Introduction of Photonic Based Building Blocks for Signal Processing in Phased

Array Antenna Systems

48 PEP2008 61804 AST completed 2 4 01-10-08 30-04-09

Photonic Base II Study on Introduction of Photonic Based Building Blocks Satellite Systems 36 PEP2009 61904 AST completed 2 4 01-05-09 30-09-09

SANDRA Seamless Aeronautical Networking Through Integration of Data Links, Radios and Antennas 3400 FP7 FP7-AAT-2008-

RTD-1-233679

completed 2 4 01-01-09 30-09-13

SATRAX Broadband satellite communication services on high-speed transport vehicles 3186 Point One PNE 101008 completed 4 5 01-09-10 01-02-14

Promis2Day Photonic and RF integration of Optical Beamforming Modules in SMART antennas for Today 2120 IOP Photonic

Devices

IPD12009 active 3 4 01-02-13 01-04-17

ORPHEUS Integrated optical ring resonator based RF filter demonstrator 188 PEP2012 PEP12032 completed 3 4 01-08-12 30-10-13

OBFN Study Application of Satellite On-board Optical Beam Forming 300 ARTES 1 ESA CONTRACT

4000106283/12/NL/NR

completed 2 3 28-02-13 07-02-14

Freebeam A Fiber to RF-Freespace Multibeam Converter 858 STW STW 12409 active 4 5 01-12-13 30-11-17

IPC Photonica MuPhi Microwave Photonics Evaluation Kit 240 IPC IPCMCM2912 completed 4 5 01-01-13 12-03-15

MIT HTSM Smart Antennas for Broadband Next Generation Wireless Communications 645 MIT HTSM MITHT14004 completed 4 5 01-10-14 31-09-16

HAMLET Heterogeneous Advancement and hybrid integration of polymer and tripLEx platform for

Integrated Microwave PhoTonics

3487 H2020-ICT-2015 2015.ICT.27a Photonics

RIA 688750

active 4 5 01-12-15 30-11-19

ITI ESA 116726 Low power tuning of waveguides in Optical Beam Forming Network applications for space 50 ESA Innovation

Triangle Initiative

(ITI)

ESA CONTRACT

4000116726/16/NL/MH/GM

active 3 3 14-10-16 14-07-17

TRL Level DateTitle Description Budget (k€) Prog. Ref. status

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