A new accurate design method for millimeter-wave homogeneous dielectric substrate lens antennas of arbitrary shape

The synthesis and the optimization of three-dimensional (3-D) lens antennas, consisting of homogeneous dielectric lenses of arbitrary shape and fed by printed sources, are studied theoretically and experimentally at millimeter(mm)-wave frequencies. The aim of the synthesis procedure is to find a lens profile that transforms the radiation pattern of the primary feed into a desired amplitude shaped output pattern. This synthesis problem has been previously applied for dielectric lenses and reflectors. As far as we know, we propose, for the first time, to adapt and implement it for the design of substrate lens antennas. The inverse scattering problem is solved in two steps. In the first one, the geometry of the 3-D lens is rigorously derived using geometrical optics (GO) principles. The resulting second-order partial-differential equation is strongly nonlinear and is of the Monge-Ampe/spl grave/re (M.A) type. The iterative algorithm implemented to solve it is described in detail. Then, a surface optimization of the lens profile combined with an analysis kernel based on physical optics (PO) is performed in order to comply with the prescribed pattern. Our algorithms are successfully validated with the design of a lens antenna radiating an asymmetric Gaussian pattern at 58.5 GHz whose half-power beamwidth equals 10/spl deg/ in H plane and 30/spl deg/ in E plane. The lens is illuminated by a microstrip 2/spl times/2 patch antenna array. Two lens prototypes have been manufactured in Teflon. Before optimization, the measured radiation patterns are in very good agreement with the predicted ones; nevertheless, the -12 dB side lobes and oscillations appearing in the main lobe evidence a strong difference between the desired and measured patterns. This discrepancy is significantly reduced using the optimized lens.     

A compact and broadband microstrip antenna design using a geometrical-methodology-based artificial neural network

A new artificial neural-network-based methodology for a microstrip antenna design was studied and presented. The methodology is applicable to DCS, GSM, WLL, WLAN, large band planar antennas, and fractals. In this paper, we present five applications of this methodology, three of which are applicable in the WLL, 802.11a, and 802.11b antenna standards. The two others are broadband designs with 500 MHz and 1 GHZ bandwidth, respectively. All the antennas radiate an end-fire beam, and have compact sizes of 29 mm /spl times/ 25 mm, 10 mm /spl times/ 13.5 mm, 10.3 mm /spl times/ 17.2 mm, 35 mm /spl times/ 25 mm, and 35 mm /spl times/ 25 mm, respectively.     

利用畸变透镜获得精细加工激光束

为了获得激光精细加工需要的能量集中且均匀分布的平顶聚焦激光束,利用衍射理论研究了畸变透镜对高斯光束衍射变换的作用,导出了解析计算式,进而获知畸变透镜如何对激光束平顶化聚焦的原理。用Matlab软件进行计算模拟,讨论了畸变透镜对高斯光束平顶化聚焦的情形和影响因素。表明利用畸变透镜对高斯光束平顶化聚焦是可行的。用这种方法获得的平顶化聚焦激光束可用于激光精细加工、微光机电系统和医学治疗等领域发挥重要作用。     

Design of dual-band slot antenna with double T-match stubs

A simple and compact design of dual-band slot antenna is presented. Fed by a CPW, the antenna is printed on a single-layer PCB with extremely low manufacturing cost. A pair of T-match stubs is employed to generate the dual resonances in the 2.4-2.5 and 5-6 GHz bands. The antenna of small radiating area 11/spl times/28 mm/sup 2/ is demonstrated on an FR4 PCB with ground plane size of 31/spl times/35 mm/sup 2/. Robust radiation performances are achieved, including in-band gain flatness within +/- 0.5 dB and polarisation isolation better than 15 dB. Consistent radiation patterns for both bands are obtained with peak gains about 3 and 4 dBi in the lower and upper bands, respectively.     

Double-pass copper vapor laser master-oscillator power-amplifier systems: generation of flat-top focused beams for fiber coupling and percussion drilling

In this paper, a compact master-oscillator power-amplifier laser system incorporating telescopic beam expansion in a high-gain double-pass amplifier is presented. A miniature (0.5 W) master-oscillator copper vapor laser is used to efficiently extract over 37 W of high-beam-quality (full transverse coherence) output power from a kinetically enhanced nominally 35-W copper vapor laser at 12-kHz pulse repetition frequency. By configuring the oscillator for low coherence output and using a multimode optical fiber between the oscillator and the double-pass amplifier, a high-power (34 W) low-divergence output beam having a well-defined flat-top far-field beam profile was also produced. The flat-top farfield beam profile arises from control of the spatial coherence of a flat-top near-field beam, rather than the usual techniques for producing flattened Gaussian beams from coherent Gaussian beams. Use of the flat-top focused beam for high-speed percussion drilling of high quality 100-/spl mu/m diameter holes in metals was demonstrated, as well as high-power (34-W average power, 80-kW peak power) damage-free power transmission through 100-/spl mu/m core diameter step-index optical fibers.     

焦斑可调的透镜阵列均匀辐照光学系统

提出用两组透镜阵列与非球面透镜组成焦斑可调的均匀辐照光学系统,可实现靶面光斑尺寸在几微米到几毫米的范围内连续可调,并且能将圆形入射激光束变换为方形均匀焦斑,同时满足二维激光光束形状的改变和强度空间分布均匀化的要求。应用矩阵光学、衍射积分理论,详细分析了它的工作原理,给出了系统优化设计参数和详细的数值计算结果。模拟计算结果表明,当靶面离焦量为Δz=2 mm时,x,y方向平顶区的不均匀度分别为η_x =4．6％,η_y=5．3％,能量利用率达到95．3％,基本上达到了设计要求。Zemax光学设计软件的仿真实验测试结果与理论分析结果吻合得很好。     

High-density digital free-space photonic switches using micro-beam optical interconnections

We describe a compact free-space photonic-switching module that uses micro-beam optical interconnections based on stacked planar optics and exciton absorption reflection switch (EARS) arrays. The switching module has two-dimensional fiber array pigtails and a two-stage, 16-input, 16-output structure (four sets of 4/spl times/4 switches). The microbeam optical interconnections can provide a compact switching module (approximately 30/spl times/90/spl times/22 mm [60 cc]). A relay lens array inserted between stages eliminates beam spreading in the switch and decreases the coupling loss and crosstalk of interconnections. Two-stage switching at a data transmission rate of 4 Mbit/s is demonstrated.     

Mechanically controlled reflectarray antenna for beam switching and beam shaping in millimetre-wave applications

A novel method is proposed to shape or switch the radiating beam of a reflectarray antenna by slight displacement of its layers with respect to each other. A reflectarray, which is a quasi-periodic structure composed of microstrip patches loaded by slot elements, is used in this scheme. The required phase shift at each position on the reflectarray surface is obtained by varying the slot length on the ground plane. Several groups of slots are etched on the slot layer and each group corresponds to one and the same beam. Mechanical alignment of the slots that belong to a certain group with the patch leads to activation of the corresponding beam. This method was used to design a reflectarray antenna with three beams at /spl plusmn/30/spl deg/ and 0/spl deg/. Measurement results demonstrated the validity of the design procedure.     

Design of Rotman lens for beamsteering of 94 GHz antenna array

The design and development of a Rotman lens for operation at 94 GHz which feeds an antenna array for beamsteering applications is presented. The construction is completely realised in waveguide technology. The lens consists of 15 beam ports covering a scan range of /spl plusmn/23.3/spl deg/ in steps of 3.3/spl deg/ and 10 array ports connected via phase compensating transmission lines to a linear antenna array. Experimental results are compared with theoretical calculations.     

A CMOS 110-dB@40-kS/s programmable-gain chopper-stabilized third-order 2-1 cascade sigma-delta Modulator for low-power high-linearity automotive sensor ASICs

This paper describes a 0.35-/spl mu/m CMOS chopper-stabilized switched-capacitor 2-1 cascade /spl Sigma//spl Delta/ modulator for automotive sensor interfaces. The modulator architecture has been selected from an exhaustive comparison among multiple topologies in terms of resolution, speed and power dissipation. To obtain a better fitting with the characteristics of different sensor outputs, the circuit can be digitally programmed to yield four input-to-output gain values (/spl times/0.5,/spl times/1,/spl times/2, and /spl times/4) and has been designed to operate within the stringent environmental conditions of automotive electronics (temperature range of -40/spl deg/C to 175/spl deg/C). In order to relax the amplifier's dynamic requirements for the different modulator input-to-output gains, switchable capacitor arrays are used for all the capacitors in the first integrator. The design of the building blocks is based on a top-down CAD methodology which combines simulation and statistical optimization at different levels of the modulator hierarchy. The circuit is clocked at 5.12 MHz and the overall power consumption is 14.7 mW from a single 3.3-V supply and occupies 5.7 mm/sup 2/ silicon area. Experimental results show a maximum SNR of 87.3 dB within a 20-kHz signal bandwidth and 90.7 dB for 10-kHz signals, and an overall DR of 110 and 113.8dB, respectively. These performance features place the reported circuit at the cutting edge of state-of-the-art high-resolution /spl Sigma//spl Delta/ modulators.     

Package-level integrated antennas based on LTCC technology

We propose a novel package topology integrating multilayer miniaturized antennas. Such a functional package is suitable for the design of a system-on-chip device, or of system-on-package applications. A stacked patch antenna is designed and integrated in a package using a low temperature co-fired ceramic process. The overall size of the package is 10.3/spl times/10.3/spl times/1.3 mm/sup 3/, and this package contains an 8.3/spl times/8.3/spl times/0.7 mm/sup 3/ internal space for the integration of chip-scale packaged components. The package is mounted on a 20/spl times/20 mm/sup 2/ ground plane to miniaturize the volume of the system. The antenna is designed to have two neighboring resonant frequencies at 5.264 and 5.355 GHz, resulting in a 140 MHz impedance bandwidth. However, the measured resonant frequencies occur at slightly higher frequencies due to manufacturing tolerances. Radiation patterns are similar to a conventional patch antenna. In addition, various parasitic effects rooted in the package size, ground size, antenna height, SMA connector, via misalignment, and the number of via holes and their locations are fully investigated.     

非球面透镜组激光光束整形系统

在激光显示等领域常常需要光强均匀分布的激光光束,为此,深入分析了一种非球面透镜组激光光束整形系统的设计方法,该方法可以将入射光束为准直的单模高斯激光光束整形为光强均匀分布的准直平顶激光光束;给出了该非球面透镜组设计的基本过程,主要包括输出光束函数的选择、光线映射函数的确定和非球面参数的确定;最后选择光线映射函数具有解析解形式的匀化洛伦兹函数作为输出光束分布函数,分别确定了伽利略型和开普勒型的非球面透镜组激光光束整形系统的参数。     

Miniaturisation of microstrip patch antenna using perturbation of radiating slot

A highly miniaturised rectangular microstrip patch antenna using deformation of the patch structure has been designed and fabricated at a frequency of 1.575 GHz (GPS). The fabricated antenna has a patch with an overall rectangular shape and depressed at its four corners (corner depressed microstrip patch antenna, CDMPA). In the linear polarisation, at a fixed rate of 1.2 of width/length (W/L), the CDMPA (53/spl times/63.6 mm) is reduced to 43.9% of the general plane type microstrip patch antenna (MPA, 80/spl times/96 mm) in patch size. The gain is 4.3 dBd which is lower than that of the general MPA (8 dBd) by 3.7 dB. In the circular polarisation, the patch size of the CDMPA (54.2/spl times/61.5 mm) is reduced to 52.8% of that of the MPA (76/spl times/83 mm). The axial ratio (AR) and axial ratio band width (ARBW) within 2 dB are 1.5 dB and 20 MHz (1.27%), respectively. The gain is 2.5 dBd, which is lower than that (4.2 dBd) of the general MPA by 1.7 dB.     

Diffraction synthesis and experimental verification of a quasi-optical power splitter at 150 GHz

A general and flexible synthesis method based on the physical optics approximation is proposed for computing smooth-surface reliefs of reflectors. As a design example, the method has been applied to a quasi-optical power splitter consisting of two reflectors in a dual-offset configuration that couples a launched beam from a pyramidal horn antenna into a 2/spl times/4 horn antenna array. The two reflectors were treated as diffractive phase elements so that the proposed synthesis method allows reflector designs for many applications. The quasi-optical design has been confirmed at 150 GHz utilizing a vector field measurement system. The measured field distribution in the receiving antenna array plane is compared with the simulated one and shows a very good agreement.     

Piezoelectric transducer controlled multiple beam phased array using microstrip Rotman lens

A simple and low-cost multiple beam phased array is designed using a microstrip Rotman lens and multi-line phase shifter controlled by a piezoelectric transducer (PET) at Ka-band. A microstrip Rotman lens with five beam ports and nine array ports is used as a feed for a multiple beam antenna array to generate five beams centered at the angles of 0/spl deg/, /spl plusmn/15/spl deg/, and /spl plusmn/30/spl deg/. The lens fed nine-element patch array shows the antenna gain of 10 dBi and sidelobe suppression of 10 dB. Each beam is steered over /spl plusmn/8/spl deg/ using two PET-controlled phase shifters, and the five beams cover /spl plusmn/38/spl deg/ from the broadside.     

A high fill factor and progressive scan PtSi Schottky-barrier IR-CCD image sensor using new wiring technology

A back surface illuminated 130/spl times/130 pixel PtSi Schottky-barrier (SB) IR-CCD image sensor has been developed by using new wiring technology, referred to as CLOSE Wiring, CLOSE Wiring, designed to effectively utilize the space over the SB photodiodes, brings about flexibility in clock line designing, high fill factor, and large charge handling capability in a vertical CCD (VCCD). This image sensor uses a progressive scanned interline-scheme, and has a 64.4% fill factor in a 30 /spl mu/m/spl times/30 /spl mu/m pixel, a 3.9 mm/spl times/3.9 mm image area, and a 5.5 mm/spl times/5.5 mm chip size. The charge handling capability for the 3.3 /spl mu/m wide VCCD achieves 9.8/spl times/10/sup 5/ electrons, The noise equivalent temperature difference obtained was 0.099 K for operation at 120 frames/sec with a 50 mm f/1.3 lens.<>     

A surface micromachined optical scanner array using photoresist lenses fabricated by a thermal reflow process

This paper presents the design, fabrication, and operation of a newly developed micromechanical optical scanner array using a translating microlens. We have used photoresist reflow technique to form a microlens on a surface micromachined XY-stage of the scratch-drive actuation mechanism. The lens scanner is placed at the focal length from an incident optical fiber to collimate the transmitting light. The collimated beam is steered two-dimensionally by the XY-motion of the microlens with respect to the incident fiber. We also have developed a theoretical model to predict appropriate initial resist thickness and diameter for the scanning lens. An optical scanning angle of /spl plusmn/7/spl deg/ has been demonstrated by sliding a microlens of 670-/spl mu/m focal length at a physical stroke of /spl plusmn/67 /spl mu/m. Typical angular positioning resolution has been estimated to be 0.018/spl deg/.     

A method for producing a shaped contour radiation pattern using asingle shaped reflector and a single feed

Eliminating the corporate feed network in shaped contour beam antennas will reduce the expense, weight, and RF loss of the antenna system. One way of producing a shaped contour beam without using a feed network is to use a single shaped reflector with a single feed element. For a prescribed contour beam and feed, an optimization method for designing the reflector shape is given. As a design example, a shaped reflector is designed to produce a continental-United-States (CONUS) coverage beam. The RF performance of the shaped reflector is then verified by physical optics     

A half-moon antenna

This work presents a half-moon antenna (HMA), which is composed of two semi-circular top and bottom conducting plates joined by a rectangular conducting plate. The HMA has a wide radiation beam. Radiation in the y-z plane (in the E plane) is hemispherical with a half-power beam width (HPBW) of more than 200/spl deg/. Radiation in the x-y plane (in the H plane) forms a sector beam with an HPBW of more than 100/spl deg/. To reduce the backward radiation and improve the gain, chokes are added to the HMA. An increase in the gain of approximately 1 dB is obtained. In order to obtain a tilted beam, the radius of the bottom plate is reduced. The maximum beam direction of the tilted beam /spl theta//sub max/ is not sensitive to frequency. Within a frequency range of 11 to 14 GHz (24%), /spl theta//sub max/=167/spl deg//spl plusmn/2/spl deg/. The gain is found to be G=9.5/spl plusmn/0.5 dBi within this same frequency range.     

波前分割DOE阵列半导体激光器光束的品字形整形

半导体激光器（LD）输出光束受工作电流、个体差异的影响,发散角、输出光强出现波动。常规衍射光学元件（DOE）的激光光束整形设计只针对特定的输入输出光场,使用宽容度比较小。文中在LD 的整形中利用DOE 阵列化的处理,输入光场被分割成许多小单元,不同强度的光重新在成像平面内预定的区域内叠加,实现对光束的整形。用均匀平面波设计阵列DOE 每个单元,把高斯分布的球面波整形成品字形光强分布,衍射效率为90.53%,均匀性大约为96%;发散角在快、慢轴方向上2~16的范围内变化,均匀性为95.8%以上、衍射效率为90%以上;在离焦量16 m 内,光束质量变化不大。阵列DOE 提高了LD 光束整形系统的稳定性。