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This paper reports the first-ever beamforming demonstration of a hybrid photonic integrated circuit operating as RF down-converter based on an optical Blass-matrix architecture for a Scan-on-Receive synthetic aperture radar intended for Earth observation from space.
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Camponeschi et al. (2024) studied this question.