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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Optical Technologies Volume 2012, Article ID 385409, 5 pages doi:10.1155/2012/385409 Research Article Fast Optical Beamforming Architectures for Satellite-Based Applications 1 2 ´1 B. Vidal, T. Mengual, and J. Martı 1 Nanophotonics Technology Center, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, 46022 Valencia, Spain ` ` 2 DAS Photonics, Ciudad Politecnica de la Innovacion, 46022 Valencia, Spain ´ ´ Correspondence should be addressed to B. Vidal, bvidal@dcom.upv.es Received 19 June 2012; Accepted 17 September 2012 Academic Editor: Nathan J. Gomes Copyright © 2012 B. Vidal et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Photonic technology offers an alternative implementation for the control of phased array antennas providing large time bandwidth products and low weight, flexible feeding networks. Measurements of an optical beamforming network for phased array antennas with fast beam steering operation for space scenarios are presented. Experimental results demonstrate fast beam steering between 4 and 8 GHz without beam squint. 1. Introduction On the other hand, photonics allows the implementa- tion of TTD beamforming networks without the problems The evolution of satellite communication and Earth observa-