The Department for Electrical Engineering (http://www.fe.uni-lj.si/en/) of the University of Ljubljana (https://www.uni-lj.si/eng/), (UL) will be mainly involved in WP3 for developing the RF electronic interface circuitry required for RADAR. The researchers involved have a strong and long-lasting background in research and prototype fabrication of high frequency components and educational activities in the area of radio and optical communications. The Radiation and Optic Laboratory (http://lso.fe.uni-lj.si/en/) at the University of Ljubljana will be actively involved in designing advanced microwave and radar equipment.
The Radiation and optics laboratory of the University of Ljubljana currently includes four senior and six junior researchers. Our specialty is high-speed electronic interface circuitry for optical and radio communications, as well as antenna design and fabrication. We can design, manufacture and test high-speed electronic circuits, as demonstrated in the ESTER, ATLAS and IPHOBAC projects. Our test equipment includes a high-speed oscilloscope (40GHz electrical, 30GHz optical), RF spectrum analysers up to 50 GHz, optical and RF power meters, vector network analyser up to 67 GHz, scalar network analysers up to 40GHz, various RF sources to 40GHz and various optical sources for 1.3um and 1.55um, indoor and outdoor antenna measurement equipment.
Role in CLARIFIER:
UL, in the person of the project Co-Director, will lead WP3, making available to the consortium its expertise in design of PCBs, antennas, and other microwave circuits design, to implement the systems RF front-end. Also leveraging on its deep knowledge of the microwave photonic technology, the role of UL will consist in assisting all the design stages to ensure the system will meet all the requirements for the implementation of frequency agility.