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RF receiver front-end assembly

  • US 8,750,709 B1
  • Filed: 07/18/2008
  • Issued: 06/10/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/18/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A multi-furcated structure responsive to input radio-frequency electromagnetic radiation comprising:

  • a plurality of radio frequency waveguide sections, at least one end of each radio frequency waveguide section being physically in contact with or adjacent one end of at least one other radio frequency waveguide section of said plurality of radio frequency waveguide sections, wherein each radio frequency waveguide section couples a different spatial portion of the input electromagnetic radiation, the plurality of radio frequency waveguide sections being fed from a common source of said radio frequency electromagnetic radiation;

    each radio frequency waveguide section having an optoelectronic modulator electrically and physically coupled to it, wherein each optoelectronic modulator responds to the electromagnetic radiation coupled to it by the radio frequency waveguide section to which that optoelectronic modulator is electrically coupled and physically connected;

    each optoelectronic modulator having an optical waveguide disposed therein such that, in use, light traveling in the optical waveguides of said optoelectronic modulators travels in a direction orthogonal with respect to the radio frequency energy propagating in said radio frequency waveguide sections; and

    wherein each optoelectronic modulator has the optical waveguide disposed therein such that, in use, light traveling in the optical waveguides of said optoelectronic modulators (i) travels in a direction orthogonal with respect to the radio frequency energy propagating in said radio frequency waveguide sections and (ii) is responsive to the orthogonally traveling radio frequency energy.

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