Design of an Optical Phased Array with Low Side-lobe Level and Wide-angle Steering Range Based on Particle Swarm Optimization

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinyu He ◽  
Tao Dong ◽  
Jingwen He ◽  
Yue Xu
Keyword(s):  
Particle Swarm Optimization ◽  
Phased Array ◽  
Particle Swarm ◽  
Side Lobe ◽  
Side Lobe Level ◽  
Wide Angle ◽  
Swarm Optimization ◽  
Optical Phased Array

scholarly journals A Design Approach of Optical Phased Array with Low Side Lobe Level and Wide Angle Steering Range

Photonics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Xinyu He ◽  
Tao Dong ◽  
Jingwen He ◽  
Yue Xu
Keyword(s):  
Phased Array ◽  
Phase Distribution ◽  
Beam Steering ◽  
Side Lobe ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Optical Antennas ◽  
Side Lobe Level ◽  
Wide Angle ◽  
Spacing Distribution ◽  
Optical Phased Array

In this paper, a new design approach of optical phased array (OPA) with low side lobe level (SLL) and wide angle steering range is proposed. This approach consists of two steps. Firstly, a nonuniform antenna array is designed by optimizing the antenna spacing distribution with particle swarm optimization (PSO). Secondly, on the basis of the optimized antenna spacing distribution, PSO is further used to optimize the phase distribution of the optical antennas when the beam steers for realizing lower SLL. Based on the approach we mentioned, we design a nonuniform OPA which has 1024 optical antennas to achieve the steering range of ±60°. When the beam steering angle is 0°, 20°, 30°, 45° and 60°, the SLL obtained by optimizing phase distribution is −21.35, −18.79, −17.91, −18.46 and −18.51 dB, respectively. This kind of OPA with low SLL and wide angle steering range has broad application prospects in laser communication and lidar system.

scholarly journals Design of an Efficient Wideband Beamformer using OPSO

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 2144-2152
Keyword(s):  
Particle Swarm Optimization ◽  
Particle Swarm ◽  
Side Lobe ◽  
Side Lobe Level ◽  
Sidelobe Level ◽  
Swarm Optimization ◽  
Angle Deviation

Wideband beamforming is a technique which is used to produce frequency invariant beampatterns over a wide signal bandwidth. In this paper, orthogonal particle swarm optimization (OPSO) based wideband beamformer is designed to achieve wideband beamforming. Simulations are carried out for two different scenarios to illustrate the capability of the algorithm for wideband beamforming. The beampatterns obtained from three different methods that are standard Frost algorithm, particle swarm optimization (PSO) and OPSO are compared by various parameters such as level of interference, deviation in interference angle and peak side lobe level. It is shown that by using OPSO, SLL (Sidelobe Level), null depth as well as angle deviation in nulls direction can be reduced as compared to PSO and Frost algorithms

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