GO Shaping of Omnidirectional Dual-Reflector Antennas for a Prescribed Equi-Phase Aperture Field Distribution

A formulation is presented for shaping dual-reflector antennas designed to offer an omnidirectional coverage. The shaping procedure is based on geometrical optics (GO) principles and assumes a uniform phase distribution for the aperture field. Two distinct dual-reflector arrangements, based on the axis-displaced Cassegrain (ADC) and ellipse (ADE) configurations, are investigated. The GO shaping results are validated using the accurate analysis provided by the method-of-moments technique     

Novel small-size directional antenna for UWB WBAN/WPAN applications

This paper presents a novel small-size directional antenna design for ultrawide-band wireless body area networks/wireless personal area networks applications. The design is based on a typical slot antenna structure with an added reflector in order to achieve directionality. The effects of different antenna parameters and human body proximity on the radiation characteristics are analyzed. Antenna measurements with an optic RF setup were performed in order to characterize the small-size antenna far field radiation pattern. The different structural antenna parameters were optimized via extensive numerical simulations. Results show that for frequencies above 3.5 GHz, where the power front-to-back ratio of the directional antenna is greater than 10 dB, its impedance is nearly the same as in the free space. It is not the case neither for the omnidirectional slot antenna nor the monopole antenna next to the body. Between 3 and 6 GHz performance of the novel directional antenna, in terms of radiation efficiency and SAR values, is significantly improved compared to omnidirectional antenna designs.     

Analysis of numerically specified multireflector antennas bykinematic and dynamic ray tracing

A technique for tracing rays and fields with several numerically specified reflectors by using geometrical optics (GO) is described. The ray paths are determined by launching individual rays from the feed point and following them by reflection from all the reflector surfaces to the output aperture of the last reflector. This procedure is referred to as kinematic ray tracing. Thereafter, the amplitude, phase and polarization of the E-field is traced along the ray paths to the aperture; this is referred to as dynamic ray tracing. The aperture field is then integrated to find the aperture efficiency, which is factorized into convenient subefficiencies. The technique has been implemented in a computer code that has been used to analyze the proposed new shaped-offset dual-reflector feed for the spherical reflector antenna at the Arecibo Observatory     

Axis-Displaced Dual-Reflector Antennas for Omnidirectional Coverage With Arbitrary Main-Beam Direction in the Elevation Plane

The synthesis of classical dual-reflector antennas suited to provide omnidirectional coverages with arbitrary main-beam direction in the elevation plane is discussed. Both sub- and main reflectors are bodies of revolution generated by axis-displaced conic sections, so to transform a spherical radiation emanating from the antenna principal focus (at the symmetry axis) into an equiphase field distribution over a conical aperture. Closed-form design equations are presented for the geometric-optics synthesis of all possible configurations. Several case studies are investigated and analyzed by the accurate method of moments technique in order to validate the proposed design procedure.     

Power focusing characteristics of ellipsoidal reflector

Power focusing characteristics of a prolate spheroidal reflector, the aperture of which is parallel to the line connecting the two focuses, are numerically studied. As a transmitting and a receiving antenna, linear wires with finite length are placed at or near the focuses of the reflector. Reflected near fields from the reflector are calculated by the physical optics technique, and transmitting and receiving antenna characteristics are obtained by the method of moments. Calculated results are given for the power focusing characteristics as a function of the eccentricity, the aperture size of the reflector, antenna directions, antenna lengths, and the receiving antenna displacement. Better power focusing characteristics are obtained when the transmitting antenna becomes less directive, or the size of the aperture becomes larger. Measured and calculated results agree very well.     

Ka 波段EBG 天线阵列的仿真与分析

电磁带隙(EBG)天线是一种可以提高天线辐射口径及增益的新型天线,本文首先以FSS 结构作为EBG 反射面,角 锥喇叭作为辐射源,设计了一种可以工作在29.7-30.2GHz,最大增益为23dB 的EBG 天线;其次,研究了7 个喇叭构成六 边形阵列时的阵列特性;最后,将EBG 天线用作单反射面多波束天线的馈源研究了波束的覆盖特性,结果表明,当波束 大小为1.12°时,多波束天线的峰值增益为44.5dB,边缘交叠电平为40.4dB,载干比大于12dB。证明了这种EBG 天线 具有良好的工作性能,为将来小型化反射面多波束天线的设计提供了一种新的思路。     

On an algorithm for analysis of the radiation patterns of dual reflector and segmented reflector antennas

Large reflector antennas, from cost and weight considerations, appear to be the best configurations for achieving the very large apertures needed for antennas mounted on orbiting spacecraft. Radiation pattern calculations for such antennas are, in general, quite costly both in terms of computer time and the considerable memory required to perform the large surface integrations. The method presented here treats the large aperture as a set of small subapertures for which the radiation fields are computed separately, stored and then added with due regard to phase to yield the radiation pattern of the large reflector. Numerical methods developed to provide the illumination of each subaperture to avoid overlap of the aperture fields of adjacent subapertures and to simplify the surface integrations are discussed. The algorithm is straightforward and has considerable intuitive appeal. The methods of geometrical optics (GO) are used to calculate the aperture plane tangential field components; and electric vector potential is then used to compute the antenna radiation fields. The algorithm includes a set of options for different reflector surfaces. If high accuracy of the far sidelobe levels is required, a subroutine accounting for edge diffraction should be added to the algorithm given here. Calculations made with this algorithm are compared with calculations made by other methods and with measured patterns.     

A scanning spherical tri-reflector antenna with a moving flatmirror

Spherical reflector systems can achieve pattern scanning without rotation of the main reflector through the use of multiple subreflectors that can move. Also, two subreflectors can be shaped to correct for spherical aberration and to control the aperture distribution on the spherical main reflector. In a previous paper (see ibid., vol.41, p.778, no.6, 1993) we introduced a method that offers both aperture phase and intensity control and scans the main beam without an accompanying movement of the illuminated area over main reflector. The method can overcome the poor aperture utilization problem common in spherical reflector antenna systems; however, it requires motion of the entire subreflector system, including the feed, during scan. In this paper we discuss a method that does not require motion of the subreflector system during scan. This method employs a flat mirror that creates a virtual image of the subreflector system. The motion of the subreflector system in the previous design is replaced by the motion of the virtual image that is controlled by the motion of the flat mirror. The new design offers simplified mechanical motion, while maintaining beam efficiency performance comparable to that of traditional spherical tri-reflector scanning antennas, but with some sacrifice in aperture efficiency and cross-polarization performance     

双馈源双偏置结构星载通信多波束天线

为了使星载通信天线产生赋形波束的同时,又能辐射具有扫描特性的点波束满足特殊情形下的通信要求,提出了一种以单馈源赋形反射面天线为基础,利用另一个馈源进行副反射面赋形,补偿主反射面口径相位差的方法,从而形成高效率点波束,并通过副反射面及对应馈源横向偏焦实现点波束扫描的目的。为了检验方法的有效性,仿真实验了一副口径为2.2 m 的赋形反射面天线。实验结果表明:赋形波束在服务区内部的最小增益是30.0dBi,点波束在服务区内部及周边区域扫描时具有比赋形波束更高的增益,因此,所提方法是有效的。     

Synthesis of offset dual shaped subreflector antennas for control of Cassegrain aperture distributions

Many existing large ground reflector antennas have been designed as Cassegrain systems-i.e., paraboloid/hyperboloid combinations. Other large ground antennas are simply paraboloid designs. Upgrading the gain of these systems to a gain comparable to that obtainable with a dual shaped reflector antenna system has been an important and costly objective of many such ground stations. A potentially economic method for such an antenna upgrade is presented herein. It involves a redesign of only the subreflector portion of a Cassegrain antenna or the introduction of a subreflector feed system for a parabaloid. A pair of offset subreflectors are synthesized which will give a controllable high gain amplitude distribution in the aperture of the large paraboloid. The synthesis method that is used is based on an approximate formulation for an offset dual shaped high gain antenna that was first presented by Galindo-Israel and Mittra in 1977. In that approximate formulation, the geometrical optics (GO) energy was scattered from a subreflector and then from a second large reflector which reflected a uniform phase distribution. In the present offset dual shaped subreflector (DSS) antenna, the second reflection is from a smaller (sub) reflector and it scatters a spherical wave that feeds a hyperboloid or feeds a large paraboloid directly. Excellent results are shown for the approximate synthesis of the DSS.     

宽频带双极化低副瓣偏馈抛物面天线

介绍了一种宽频带双极化低副瓣天线的设计、加工方法和测试结果。采用馈源偏置的方法来减小副瓣,采用波纹喇叭实现天线双极化的要求,并且采用双椭圆切割抛物面来增加天线的效率和减小方位主波束宽度。天线的理论分析与实验结果吻合较好,优于所需的技术指标要求。     

反射面天线焦面场采样研究与相控阵馈源设计

为了设计高性能的相控阵馈源(phased array feed,PAF),通过反射面天线焦面场最优采样的研究,给出了PAF参数与天线口径效率之间的关系,总结了PAF的最优采样范围和单元间距,导出了PAF单元数量的计算公式.给出了一个9 m天线的PAF设计实例和性能分析,在4～7 GHz频率范围内,扫描范围为±3°时,天...     

Losses, sidelobes, and cross polarization caused by feed-supportstruts in reflector antennas: design curves

In a symmetrical reflector antenna the feed system and its support struts block the aperture and thereby deteriorate the radiation characteristics. Simple design curves are presented for the efficiency reduction, the sidelobe levels, and the cross polarization caused by strut blockage. The results are obtained from an analytical study that includes the induced field ratio (IFR) of the struts. The most significant IFR values for struts with circular cross section are calculated and plotted in a way which makes them easy to use as design curves. The use of the design curves is demonstrated by an example     

Analytical solution for early-time transient radiation frompulse-excited parabolic reflector antennas

A closed-form analytical solution is developed for predicting the early-time transient electromagnetic fields which are generated by a perfectly conducting parabolic reflector antenna when it is illuminated by a transient step spherical wave due to an elemental Huygen's source located at the focus. This closed-form time-domain solution, which is valid both near and far from the reflector (and anywhere in the forward region) can be used via the convolution theorem to efficiently obtain the early-time transient fields generated by the same parabolic reflector antenna when it is illuminated by a realistic finite-energy pulse which emanates as a spherical wave from the focus. The transient solution is developed here by analytically inverting, in closed form, the corresponding frequency-domain solution in terms of a radiation integral that employs an asymptotic high-frequency geometrical optics (GO)-based approximation for the fields in the aperture. Numerical results are presented for the transient fields both near and far from the reflector. The fields on boresight exhibit an impulse-like behavior similar to that of the impulse radiating antenna (IRA) introduced by Baum et al. (1989, 1993)     

W 波段电大尺寸椭圆柱形反射面天线的设计

设计了一种W波段电大尺寸波束扫描椭圆柱面反射面天线,利用椭圆双焦点的几何特性,通过合理设计口径面利用率及天线效率,使得天线在近场具有较窄的焦斑宽度,同时在远场也有较高的方向性,适用于中、远距离均要求较高横向距离分辨率的目标探测雷达。针对电大尺寸反射 面天线仿真工作量大的问题,提出一种简化设计方法,提高了天线设计效率。利用紧缩场（CR）测试方法对天线进行远场辐射方向图测量,通过雷达系统的目标探测实验测试了天线的近场焦斑宽度。实测数据与仿真结果之间的良好一致性证明了整个天线设计方法的可靠性和准确性。     

94 GHz zonal ring reflector for helicopter collision avoidance

A single-layer reflector antenna combining eight and four correcting Fresnel zones is presented. The progressive phase shift is achieved by circular and annular patches. The choice of a quarter-wavelength thickness substrate provides naturally 0 and 180/spl deg/ correcting zones that simplify the reflector design. A prototype of reflector antenna working at 94 GHz has been designed, built and measured. Measurement results show 70% improvement of antenna aperture efficiency compared to the half-wave Fresnel zone plate reflector.     

A first-order treatment of aberrations in Cassegrainian and Gregorian antennas

The decrease in aperture efficiency caused by small aberrations in a reflector antenna is determined. The important case of a Cassegrainian (or Gregorian) antenna with a feed placed in the vicinity of the focal point is treated in detail. For this case the various aberration components due to astigmatism, coma, etc., are derived explicitly, their effect on aperture efficiency is shown, and the conditions that optimize performance are given. The results are useful for the design of multibeam antennas in ground stations and satellites.     

Logiciel de conception d’antennes à deux réflecteurs. application aux systèmes conformés elliptiques à alimentation décalée

To facilitate the design of dual reflector antennas, the interactive, graphic CA2R software package handles centrally or offset-fed structures with quadric or shaped reflectors. Surface shaping, based on geometrical optics, improves the antenna’s efficiency and the sidelobe level. Existing techniques are applied to an offset-fed antenna with an elliptical projected aperture. An original numerical method to minimize crosspolar components is also presented.     

A transform technique for computing the radiation pattern of prime-focal and Cassegrainian reflector antennas

An efficient numerical method based on the use of the fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm is developed for computing radiation patterns of aperture antennas with given aperture distributions. The method is also readily applicable to the problem of computing the radiation pattern of paraboloidal reflector antennas when the induced surface currents on the surface of the reflector are known. Using an efficient launching and scanning scheme for subreflector analysis, the method is extended to a Cassegrainian reflector antenna system.     

Shaped-beam horn-reflector antennas

A design method for a horn-reflector antenna, which has a beam of arbitrary cross section, is developed. To show the effectiveness of the design theory, the measured data of an electrical model of Japan's domestic communications satellite antenna of this type are shown in comparison with calculated results. The design theory is based on geometrical optics, and is applicable not only to a horn-reflector antenna, but also to any reflector antenna. At the first step of the design theory, the shape of the wavefront near the aperture is determined to correspond to desired beam shape. The shape of the reflector is then determined by the law of the optical path.