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IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters
Volume 10 Number 11, November 2000

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A Two-Dimensional Coupled Oscillator Array

Ronald J. Pogorzelski

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Abstract:

Design, fabrication, and test of a two-dimensional (2-D)coupled oscillator array is described. The array consists of nine voltage-controlled oscillators in a 3×3 configuration and operates at S-band. It is demonstrated experimentally that the array can generate planar phase distributions suitable for producing a radiated beam which is agile in two dimensions via tuning of the perimeter oscillators only. This is believed to be the first implementation of such an array.

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