基于粒子群算法的低副瓣螺旋天线设计

提出了一种单绕低副瓣螺旋天线的设计方法. 在单绕螺旋天线外加一个金属锥面来改变天线的辐射特性. 采用粒子群算法对影响天线方向图的参数,包括金属锥面两端的口径和长度进行了设计,以降低天线辐射方向图的最大副瓣电平. 仿真分析和实验测试结果说明在要求的1268.5±10 MHz频带范围内该天线驻波比小于1.15,天线方向图的最大副瓣电平低于-25 dB.     

Switched-beam antenna based on modified Butler matrix with low sidelobe level

A switched-beam antenna with a low sidelobe level based on a modified n/spl times/n Butler feeding network is proposed. This novel design only requires addition of 180/spl deg/ power dividers in the Butler matrix part. A four-beam prototype is constructed. Measurement indicates that the sidelobe level is significantly reduced.     

The helicone—A circularly polarized antenna with low sidelobe level

An axial mode helix in a conical horn produces a circularly polarized pencil beam of low sidelobe level over a 2-to-1 bandwidth. The gain of the combination or "helicone" is four times that of a simple helix of the same length and the sidelobes are 15 to 20 dB lower.     

数字阵列天气雷达低副瓣天线设计

为天气雷达设计一维相扫相控阵天线,方位面副瓣低于-30 d B,波束宽度小于1°,俯仰面接收副瓣低于-40 d B。方位面波束采用窄边波导裂缝阵列天线实现,采用全数字T/R组件精确控制幅度和相位,实现低于-40 d B的俯仰面接收副瓣。测试结果表明,副瓣电平与波束宽度指标与理论值吻合较好,满足指标要求。     

L波段双脊裂缝波导低副瓣阵列天线的设计

设计了一种L波段双脊波导裂缝阵列天线。该天线具有好的频率响应特性,实现了低副瓣,水平垂直两个面的交叉极化得到了有效抑制。由于馈电双脊波导的截面尺寸大幅度减小,使得这项研究将有很好的应用前景。     

High efficiency and low sidelobe design for a large aperture offset reflector antenna

A design method giving high efficiency and low sidelobes is discussed for large aperture offset reflector antennas. A new reflector shaping technique using the subreflector and the beam waveguide reflector with the parabolic main reflector is proposed to simplify the main reflector manufacturing process. The effectiveness of the technique is confirmed by the model experiments. One problem with this reflector shaping technique is that the subreflector edge level cannot be controlled independently of the main reflector edge level. By investigating the relation between the gain reduction and the subreflector edge level, which affects the wide-angle sidelobe levels, the realizable characteristics of antennas are studied. In order to decrease the subreflector edge level without reducing the aperture efficiency, a technique using an extended reflector is also proposed. Its effectiveness is shown by theoretical and experimental investigations.     

A low sidelobe asymmetric beam antenna for high altitude platform communications

In a communications network served by a high altitude platform, the antenna beams illuminating each cell require minimized sidelobe powers. Asymmetric beams are advantageous so that cell footprints remain circular. At millimeter wavelengths a lens antenna can have the desired properties. We have chosen a 6 km diameter cell at 32/spl deg/ elevation angle and shown how the required beam asymmetry can be implemented using an optimized polynomial for describing the lens profile. The measured average sidelobe level is below -42 dB.     

The design of antenna arrays with tapered sidelobe heights

Arrays for many radar and sonar applications have customarily been designed for equal sidelobe levels. This is, perhaps, as much due to the convenience of the analytical Dolph-Chebyshev technique as to any specific requirement. Using a simple adaptation of a previously reported numerical technique for symmetrical arrays, designs can be obtained whose directional response has a specified taper on the envelope containing the sidelobes. The method is applicable to both sum and difference patterns for both line and planar arrays. However, there seems to be little to be gained by this procedure except in the case when the outer sideiobes are to be more severely controlled.     

Imaging of scatterers on microwave antenna test ranges

A circular synthetic aperture imaging technique for evaluating the performance of antenna far-field test ranges is presented. Using multifrequency data, the fields incident on the region occupied by the scanning antenna are used to produce microwave images showing the distribution and level of scattering artifacts on the test site. Results are presented for S- and X-band ranges on a large outdoor antenna measurement facility. Various primary scatterers are identified, together with a source of secondary illumination of scattering objects     

Near-field blockage of an ultralow sidelobe antenna

An analytical model is presented which describes the farfield radiation pattern of an array antenna blocked by a vertical or horizontal metallic cylinder in the near field of the aperture. The implementation of this model as a generalized computer program has been completed, and the computed radiation patterns have been verified by extensive measurements on a low sidelobeX-band slotted waveguide array. The effects of the blockage are summarized graphically for a wide range of obstacle sizes and distances, and for aperture illuminations ranging from conventional reflector-type distributions to ultralow sidelobe distributions. Using dielectric or absorptive coatings to improve the radiation pattern in the presence of cylindrical obstacles is proposed as a logical extension to the existing model.     

随机误差对模块化阵列天线副瓣的影响

推导了相位误差、单元位置误差和子阵位置误差的取值范围与模块化阵列天线副瓣累积概率的关系,以及单元位置误差、子阵位置误差与整体位置误差的关系.通过实例说明,激励幅相误差、单元位置误差和子阵位置误差,对实现超低副瓣都是至关重要的.     

Measurement distance effects on low sidelobe patterns

Because of the current strong emphasis on low sidelobe antennas, the effects of measurement distance in distorting patterns are reexamined. Previous calculations have used obsolete or suboptimum aperture distributions. The Taylorbar{n}linear distribution is a versatile highly efficient and robust optimum distribution; its use here allows a single curve of sidelobe measurement error versus measurement distance (normalized to far field distance2D^{2}/lambda) for a given sidelobe level. The calculations give data from a uniform distribution to a 60 dB Taylor. For example, the first sidelobe of a 40 dB Taylor pattern is in error 1 dB at a distance of6 D^{2}/lambda.     

Contribution of reflector profile errors to antenna sidelobe radiation

The validity of a simple formula for the level of sidelobe radiation due to profile errors in an antenna reflector has been verified by numerical evaluation of Ruze's integral. The statistical distribution of the sidelobes is discussed before the formula is applied to the practical case of large earth-station antennas. Profile errors may significantly impair the sidelobe performance of these antennas unless adequate tolerances are specified.     

The effects of reflector antenna diffraction on the interference cancellation performance of coherent sidelobe cancellers

While adaptive antenna technology has undergone significant development, little attention has been given to the impact of antenna design on the performance of the adaptive system. A need exists to factor the details of the antenna system response into the analysis of adaptive system performance, particularly in the case where adaptive cancellation is required over a broad bandwidth. At extremely high frequency (EHF) where wide bandwidth allocations exist, reflector antenna technology used with an adaptive sidelobe canceller design is appropriate. This paper uses a simple diffraction model to compare the adaptive performance differences between Cassegrain and offset reflector designs. The reduced diffraction of the offset reflector design results in improved cancellation performance. These analyses also provide the opportunity to explore the impacts of antenna design parameters and interference power levels and arrival directions.     

Design of a low sidelobe double difference beam for a circularaperture

A low-sidelobe double-difference beam is synthesized for a circular aperture in a manner similar to the synthesis of the circular Taylor sum beam and the circular Bayliss difference beam. The method proposed allows the designer to select a peak-to-sidelobe level ratio and an integer N which controls the shape of the close-in sidelobes. Such a beam finds use in main beam ECCM applications     

Whitening of sidelobe powers by pattern switching in radar array antenna

Presented here is a concept for nearly eliminating bias errors in reflectivity and velocity estimates due to power received through antenna sidelobes of pulse Doppler radars. The antenna pattern is switched from pulse to paise among specially designed patterns, with near identical main lobes, but with sidelobes having randomly distributed phases and amplitudes. The sidelobe signal then becomes incoherent without affecting the coherency of the main lobe signal. The whitened sidelobe signal does not bias the mean velocity estimate computed by Doppler processing, and an unbiased estimate of reflectivity can be computed with the knowledge of the mean whitened power level. Pattern design criteria and a method for the design of optimum patterns are developed for a linear array. The extent of sidelobe reduction by way of whitening has been studied in detail for special case of only two patterns switched randomly using a pseudonoise sequence. Pattern switching realizes an effectively low sidelobe pattern without sacrifice of main lobe resolution. A possible extension to two-dimensional arrays is suggested.     

Bandwidth of a low sidelobe level multimode radiating coupled waveguide array

The multimode radiation patterns due to a waveguide periodically coupled on the one hand with another waveguide and, on the other hand, with unidentical radiating slots were studied. The aim of the study was to calculate and realize a prescribed current distribution which would obtain a low sidelobe level in a multimode array. First, the theoretical concept is justified after a successful comparison with experiments. Secondly, optimum array parameters are taken into account in order to deduce the theoretical bandwidth and efficiency of the multimode array. Theoretical results and experiments are in good agreement. The optimum array parameters are critical and special attention is paid to the accuracy with which the array must be realized.     

Carrier-to-noise ratio and sidelobe level in a two-laser modeloptically controlled array antenna using Fourier optics

The carrier-to-noise ratio of the microwave signal and the reduction of the antenna sidelobe are discussed for an optically controlled array antenna whose microwave aperture distribution is generated and controlled using Fourier transform and optical/electrical conversion. A two-laser model using two laser diodes whose frequency difference is set to the desired microwave frequency is proposed and compared with a single-laser model using an external modulator. The two-laser model seems to be favorable from the viewpoint of available laser diode output power. The required laser output for the two-laser model can be about 10 dB less than that for the single-laser model. Moreover, relationships between the antenna radiation characteristics and the aperture size of an image mask are investigated. It is clarified that the sidelobe level can be reduced about 20 dB without changing the gain and beamwidth by using a reference optical beam with a tapered amplitude distribution     

Analysis of low frequency scattering from penetrable scatterers

A method is presented for solving the surface integral equation using the method of moments (MoM) at very low frequencies, which finds applications in geoscience. The nature of the Helmholtz decomposition leads the authors to choose loop-tree basis functions to represent the surface current. Careful analysis of the frequency scaling property of each operator allows them to introduce a frequency normalization scheme to reduce the condition number of the MoM matrix. After frequency normalization, the MoM matrix can be solved using LU decomposition. The poor spectral properties of the matrix, however, makes it ill-suited for an iterative solver. A basis rearrangement is used to improve this property of the MoM matrix. The basis function rearrangement (BFR), which involves inverting the connection matrix, can be viewed as a pre-conditioner. The complexity of BFR is reduced to O(N), allowing this method to be combined with iterative solvers. Both rectilinear and curvilinear patches have been used in the simulations. The use of curvilinear patches reduces the number of unknowns significantly, thereby making the algorithm more efficient. This method is capable of solving Maxwell's equations from quasistatic to electrodynamic frequency range. This capability is of great importance in geophysical applications because the sizes of the simulated objects can range from a small fraction of a wavelength to several wavelengths     

随机误差对超低副瓣天线平面近场测量的影响

导出了平面近场测量中近场幅相随机误差所引起的误差谱的解析表达式。利用计算机模拟和统计平均的方法研究了近场幅相随机误差对超低副瓣天线平面近场测量结果的影响 ,并给出不同口径尺寸的超低副瓣天线的平面近场测量 ,为保证- 5 5 d B副瓣± 5 d B的测试精度 ,所能允许的近场幅相随机误差的最大起伏度