Localisation of Ultra-Wide Band Radio Signals by Time-Multiplexed Photonic Analog-to-Digital Processing

Roberto Llorente , Maria Morant , Nicolas Amiot (1) , Bernard Uguen (1)

1 IETR - Institut d'Électronique et des Technologies du numéRique

A time-multiplexed multichannel photonic-ADC is proposed and demonstrated for the detection and localisation of ultra-wideband radio transmitters. The experimental results indicate successful operation with a mean positioning error of 0.9 m.

Roberto Llorente, Maria Morant, Nicolas Amiot, Bernard Uguen. Localisation of Ultra-Wide Band Radio Signals by Time-Multiplexed Photonic Analog-to-Digital Processing. 36th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (ECOC), Sep 2010, Turin, Italy. ⟨hal-00945596⟩