Abstract
An optical true-time delay (OTTD) engine based on a polynomial White cell (quadratic) is designed and simulated with commercially available components with a time delay increment of at least for wideband beam steering in the frequency range of . The simulated quantification of aberration losses show for the first time that aberration losses in the null cell are about . However, for the longer delay arms, there is an additional loss of about each time a beam travels an arm with a lens train used as a delay element compared with the same delay generated without a lens train. We present a design and simulation of a low-loss delay arms quartic cell without a lens train by using a separate field lens for each delay arm for efficient wideband beam steering.
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