超宽带馈源技术发展综述

反射面天线是最主要的高增益天线形式,在与无线电相关的各个领域具有广泛应用。随着科技的发展,对于超宽带(UWB)反射面天线的要求日益迫切。因此,作为反射面天线核心的馈源,如何在超宽的频带内具有良好的阻抗特性、恒定的辐射特性和稳定的相位中心,已成为当今天线技术的研究热点。给出了超宽带馈源的设计要点,总结了超宽带馈源的类型、特点和发展现状,并对超宽带馈源设计技术的未来提出了展望。     

一种脉冲超宽带测控信号捕获方法

脉冲超宽带测控系统作为一种航天测控新体制,可有效提高系统的隐蔽性和抗干扰性。该文针对脉冲超宽带测控信号的捕获问题,提出利用基于部分匹配滤波与快速傅里叶变换(Partial Matched Filtering and Fast Fourier Transform, PMF-FFT)的捕获方法完成对脉冲相位、伪码相位和多普勒频率的3维捕获。又针对搜索空间大、捕获时间长和多普勒频率估计精度低的问题,提出了一种改进的捕获方法。该方法采用两步捕获法对时延相位进行捕获,同时利用修正的Rife算法对多普勒频率进行进一步精细估计。仿真结果表明,该方法可有效提高捕获速度,减小捕获时间,且能显著提高多普勒频率估计精度。     

不同参数超宽带反射面天线系统辐射特性

在超宽带反射面天线设计中,首要问题是馈电天线的方向图与反射器匹配。以往在频域上对反射面天线的研究发现,当馈源天线方向图给出约-11 dB的边缘照射时,反射面天线可实现其最佳性能。在参数化模拟了作为馈源的透射电子显微镜(TEM)喇叭天线方向图特性的基础上,根据反射面天线的频域设计准则,相应地加入合适的超宽带反射面天线,对其远场辐射特性进行模拟计算。为了获得尽可能大的远场辐射场,采用计算机仿真技术(CST)数值模拟软件,在0 GHz~1 GHz频率范围内模拟了以不同参数TEM喇叭天线作馈源的超宽带反射面天线的远场辐射特性,并在时域上对其结果进行分析。模拟结果表明,由于其相位中心的不确定性,作为馈源的TEM喇叭天线无法与反射面天线完全匹配,其沿着反射面天线主轴移动时产生的反射面口径场相位和幅度的变化影响着远场辐射场的变化,TEM喇叭天线的遮挡效应也不容忽视。     

Coexistence and interworking between UMTS and UWB: a performance evaluation of a UMTS/UWB interoperability platform

Ultra wideband (UWB) radio technology is nowadays one of the most promising technologies for medium-short range communications. It has a wide range of applications including high data rate systems and low data rate systems with location and tracking. The interoperation of UWB with Wide Area Networks (WAN) technologies is very interesting in order to extend the scope of UWB applications, but harmless coexistence between them must be assured. Extensive research is being focused to the development of efficient mitigation techniques and the collaboration between both radio services is an interesting solution when UWB is collocated in the same device with other radio technology. In this paper a UMTS/UWB interworking platform is presented, which allows remote monitoring of a UWB body area network for medical applications. The coexistence between UMTS and UWB is evaluated and cooperative mitigation techniques are proposed and implemented in the platform.     

Repeated wavelength conversion of 10 Gbit/s signal usingwavelength-tunable semiconductor lasers

Repeated wavelength conversion of 10 Gbit/s pseudorandom non-return-to-zero signals is demonstrated using superstructure grating distributed Bragg reflector lasers operating in the 1.55-μm wavelength region. Error-free and very low-power-penalty wavelength conversion can be achieved in both first and second wavelength conversion for a fixed converted wavelength over a broad wavelength range from 1.486 to 1.573 μm (about 90-nm wide). The power penalty of the transmitted signal light through the first wavelength conversion device increases when the converted wavelength is switched from 1.544 to 1.573 μm periodically at a repetition frequency of 40 MHz. The increase in power penalty, however, is less than 6 dB even when the bit error rate is 10^-12     

一种基于FPGA的超宽带雷达数字接收机

脉冲超宽带雷达回波信号由于带宽大而难以直接采样,文中设计并实现了一种基于FPGA的数字式脉冲超宽带雷达接收机。该接收机利用FPGA内嵌锁相环产生特定频率的时钟,驱动四路10 bit ADC器件,根据回波信号在一段时间内呈准静态及周期性的特点,实现了四通道时域伪随机等效采样。仿真及测试结果表明,该数字式脉冲超宽带雷达接收机等效采样速率可达10 GS/s,可有效接收雷达回波信号,满足脉冲超宽带雷达的应用需求。     

An ultrawideband system architecture for tag based wireless sensor networks

With the latest improvements in device size, power consumption, and communications, sensor networks are becoming increasingly more popular. There has also been a great increase in the popularity of commercial applications based on ultrawideband (UWB). Impulse radio (IR) based UWB technology utilizes noise-like signal, has potentially low complexity and low cost, is resistant to severe multipath, and has very good time domain resolution allowing for location and tracking applications. In this paper, the architecture and performance of a noncoherent low complexity UWB impulse radio based transceiver designed for low data rate, low cost sensor network applications is presented. The UWB-IR transmitter is based on a delay locked loop (DLL) and UWB monocycle pulse generator. The UWB-IR receiver utilises a noncoherent, energy detection based approach, which makes it largely independent of the shape of the transmit waveform and robust to multipath channels. The test circuits are designed for 0.35 /spl mu/m SiGe BiCMOS technology. This paper presents system simulations results as well as the performance of key functional blocks of the designed UWB application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) transceiver architecture. The simulated power consumption of UWB-IR transceiver circuits is 136 mW with 100% duty cycle with a 3.3 V power supply.     

A High-Power Reflector Impulse Antenna with Dual-Tem Source

There are different demands on radiation efficiency and direction pattern according to various ultra-wideband (UWB) antennas and high power applications. To obtain more radiating gain on bore-sight of paraboloidal reflector and centralized radiating direction, a novel feeding structure called dual-TEM source has been designed and applied in half-paraboloidal reflector impulse radiating antenna (IRA) applications. Simulation results proved that this proposed half-paraboloidal reflector IRA with dual-TEM source provided greater radiation performance on bore-sight as a result of the synthesized power in the aperture space of paraboloid. Moreover, lots of simulation work and comparison have been done in different feeding models to summarize a relative optimal feeding structure.     

Method for determining the mutual time delay of ultrawideband OFDM signals

The efficient algorithm for determining the mutual time delay of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) signals propagating in ultrawideband (UWB) satellite communications systems is proposed. The algorithm is based on modified calculation of the mutual uncertainty function of signals to compensate for the Doppler effect. The directly calculated mutual uncertainty function of UWB signals makes it impossible to obtain the consistent estimate of the mutual time delay due to the influence of the Doppler broadening of a spectral band. The proposed algorithm relies on the fact that received signals are divided into separate narrowband channels in which mutual uncertainty functions are subsequently calculated. The algorithm operation modes based on OFDM and pseudorandom frequency-hopping signals are compared.     

Unidirectional uwb array antenna using leaf-shaped bowtie elements and flat reflector

A study of a UWB array antenna is presented, which is composed of leaf-shaped bowtie radiating elements printed on a dielectric substrate. With the use of a flat reflector, the presented antenna has unidirectional radiation characteristics and higher directivity in comparison with omnidirectional UWB antennas. In the maximum radiation direction of the proposed antenna, the actual gain of 10.3-13.3 dBi is achieved over the frequency range of 4.1-10.0 GHz (-3 dB gain bandwidth of 91%).     

High-frequency asymptotic formulation for prompt response of parabolic reflector antennas

This work presents some important concepts for the temporal characterization of reflector antennas based on the determination of the transient antenna response together with a useful definition of the early-time antenna radiation pattern. The concepts are useful in the analysis and design of reflector antennas intended for high resolution radars and for high capacity digital, and UWB communication systems.     

Measured MIMO Capacity and Diversity Gain With Spatial and Polar Arrays in Ultrawideband Channels

This paper experimentally investigates the performance of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems in indoor ultrawideband (UWB) channels. The improvement in robustness and information rate due to spatial and polar antenna arrays is evaluated. The subchannel correlation, power gains of supported eigenmodes, and branch power ratios are analyzed. The polar arrays are found to experience lower correlation than that of spatial arrays. SNR gains of up to 3 and 5 dB are reported with 1times2 and 1times3 spatial arrays, respectively; the latter is shown to double the coverage range. The mutual information capacity is found to scale almost linearly with the MIMO array size, with very low variance. It is confirmed that the device compactness achieved by the polar array comes with only a small penalty in the achievable capacity and SNR gain compared to the spatial array. The multiple-antenna UWB techniques explored in this paper offer the potential for high-data-rate, robust communications.     

UWB对IEEE802.11a WLAN的电磁干扰分析

在FCC模板和ECC模板的基础上,分析了室内环境下UWB设备对IEEE802.11a WLAN系统的电磁干扰。在IEEE802.11a系统性能恶化1dB的情况下,使用双线模型分别计算出室内环境下单个UWB设备和多个UWB设备的发射功率限制。分析结果表明,对于IEEE802.11a WLAN来说,距离最近的UWB干扰是最主要的干扰,建议以36cm的最小隔离距离为基础来限制5GHz频段处的UWB发射功率。因此ECC模板更能满足IEEE802.11a的电磁兼容要求,而FCC模板能否保证有待进一步研究。     

FM-UWB for Communications and Radar in Medical Applications

UWB technology is a useful and safe new technology in the area of wireless body area network. There are many advantages of using UWB as a communication standard for biomedical applications. Due to very low radiated power (−41.3 dBm/MHz), low power consumption, good coexistence with the other existing instruments, Robustness to interference and multipath. Moreover, one specific UWB technology, namely Frequency Modulated (FM)-UWB, has also an important advantage, which make it even more convenient for medical applications, such as simple low cost design (FM, no receive LO, no carrier synchronization as in IR-UWB). UWB technology has been also proposed radar applications such as: Non-Invasive Heart and Respiration Rate Monitoring; Detection of Cardiac Arrhythmias; Detection of Pathological Respiratory Patterns, particularly in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and Sleep Apnea; Multi-Patient Monitoring; Detection and Non-Invasive Imaging of Breast Tumors. However, pulsed radar are mainly used for these applications. The main issue that is addressed in this paper is the integration of sensing and communication using FM-UWB and radar technology so that a single device can be obtained for two different operational mode. We have show that FM-UWB as radar can meet the requirements of typical biomedical applications such as Non-Invasive Heart and Respiration Rate Monitoring. Advantages and challenges of this integration are shown. Future perspectives of this novel activity will be drawn.     

Analysis of the frequency noise of tunable multisection DBR lasers

A theoretical analysis is performed of the frequency noise in tunable two- and three-section distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) laser diodes (LDs), taking into account the nonlinear gain compression effect. For a two-section DBR LD the frequency noise is shown to depend significantly on the tuning current, particularly at low frequencies (below the gigahertz range) and for low and moderate values of the grating coupling coefficient. For high values of this coefficient the tuning dependence is generally negligible when the tuning is performed only through the DBR section, but it becomes significant when using the phase control current in a three-section device. It is shown that the enhancement factor for the spontaneous emission rate due to the longitudinal field dependence increases significantly with tuning for low values of the grating coupling coefficient     

UWB wireless sensor networks: UWEN - a practical example

The research topic of sensor networks has been around for some time. With improvements in device size, power consumption, communications, and computing technology, sensor networks are becoming more popular for an ever increasing range of applications. Since 2002, there has been an increased in the popularity of commercial applications based on ultra wideband. This, in turn, has ignited interest in the use of this technology for sensor networks and fuelled research in the area. Impulse-radio-based UWB technology has a number of inherent properties that are well suited to sensor network applications. In particular, UWB systems have potentially low complexity and low cost, have noise-like signal, are resistant to severe multipath and jamming, and have very good time domain resolution allowing for location and tracking applications. This article examines one example of a UWB sensor network for outdoor sport and lifestyle applications.     

一种简易的超宽带纳秒级脉冲发生器设计

为了得到超宽带纳秒级窄脉冲信号,在对UWB脉冲产生方法分析总结的基础上,提出了一种基于数字逻辑器件的简单脉冲产生电路。对实际制做的电路进行了测试,能够得到重复频率为10 MHz,脉冲宽度约为4ns,幅度约为500mV的窄脉冲。该电路成本低,结构简单,易于制作,工程实用性较强。     

On the performance of a rapid synchronization algorithm for IR‐UWB receivers

Because of the very low signal duty cycles, synchronization is the most critical issue in ultra wideband (UWB) impulse radio (IR) systems. Some effective synchronization schemes like a symbol‐differential (SD) IR‐UWB receiver have been proposed to synchronize received signals rapidly. Yet, SD IR‐UWB receiver is unsuitable for operation in multi‐user environment because of multiple access interference (MAI). By taking advantage of frame‐differential IR‐UWB receivers, we propose a parallel frame‐differential (PFD) IR‐UWB receiver to do so. Our proposed PFD IR‐UWB receiver manifests better immunity against message passing interface and MAI than the SD IR‐UWB. Based on this PFD IR‐UWB receiver, uncertain (search) regions are limited to one frame duration without any symbol‐level synchronization process. Performance of PFD and SD receivers are compared by computer simulations, showing that the proposed PFD receiver not only achieves significant bit error rate performance but also better and more robust results than the SD receiver in this literature. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Miniature broadband antenna for WLAN/WiMAX and lower-band UWB applications

A miniature broadband antenna is presented for applications in WLAN, WiMAX and lower-band UWB. This triple-mode antenna consists of a multi-branch radiator with overall dimensions of only 10(L) X 10(W) X 0.8(H)mm³ to be embedded in a portable device and with a wide operating band covering 2.4 to 6.8 GHz. Simulated and measured results are compared, which show good agreement. Also, suitable group delay and transmission characteristics can be achieved in the UWB lower band.