RECONFIGURABLE APERTURE WITH AN OPTICAL BACKPLANE

摘要

A reconfigurable aperture with an optical backplane. In one embodiment a reconfigurable aperture antenna is disclosed. The reconfigurable aperture includes a plurality of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSEL) and a receiver for each VCSEL. Each receiver is adapted to reconfigure a portion o f an aperture in response to an optical feed from an associated VCSEL.