低副瓣多波束Rotman透镜天线设计

设计了一个工作于Ka频段的16波束H面波导结构低副瓣多波束Rotman透镜天线.各相邻波束间隔小于半功率波束宽度.采用相邻波束副瓣对消的原理实现了降低副瓣目的.实测结果表明,与未采取对消的天线相比,天线副瓣电平平均降低了10 dB.给出了H面喇叭激励下透镜内电磁场计算公式及阵列轮廓的截获损耗.螺钉移相器的应用缩小了透镜...     

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.     

Conformal four-beam antenna arrays with reduced sidelobes

Investigations on sidelobe reduction in multibeam conformal antenna arrays are presented. The recently presented concept of sidelobe reduction in planar multibeam antenna arrays in conjunction with the phase compensation technique has been applied for the design of reduced sidelobe multibeam conformal antenna arrays. Six- and eight-element antenna arrays fed by modified Butler matrices have been investigated and minimum radii have been found for which the sidelobe level is comparable to the respective planar multibeam arrays. A novel fully integrated six-element four-beam antenna array has been successfully designed in which sidelobes equal -14 dB for all four beams have been achieved.     

一种自适应的毫米波多波束天线

本文设计了一种自适应的毫米波多波束天线.采用一种新颖的馈电方式来产生低副瓣、高增益、高邻近波束重叠的窄波束.并且采用数字波束形成技术来产生多波束.仿真和计算结果表明,这个天线的波束波瓣宽度可以达到1°,并且副瓣电平低于-25dB.采用自适应技术后,可以得到小于-30dB的理想零陷.     

Development of a 45 GHz multiple-beam antenna for militarysatellite communications

Design and experimental results of a wide-angle coverage 45 GHz multiple-beam antenna for military satellite communications are presented in this paper. The high-gain spot beams with low sidelobe levels and efficient adjacent beam overlap are generated by employing an offset parabolic reflector with overlapping feed clusters. The beam shape can be adapted to cancel either single- or multiple-jammers by varying excitations within the feed cluster corresponding to the beam. Development of antenna components including Potter horn, polarizer, phase-amplitude controller, and beamforming network is discussed. Measured results of the demonstration antenna have shown that sidelobe and crosspolar levels of better than -25 dB are achieved for beams scanned over an eight-degree diameter circular coverage region. The adapted patterns of the antenna agree well with the computations, and null depths of better than 30 dB have been realized over a 4.5% bandwidth     

Fan-Beam Millimeter-Wave Antenna Design Based on the Cylindrical Luneberg Lens

A new design of two-dimensional cylindrical Luneberg lens is introduced based on TE₁₀ mode propagation between parallel plates, with special focus on ease of manufacturing. The parallel plates are partially filled with low cost polymer material (Rexolite epsiv_r = 2.54) to match Luneberg's law. A planar linear tapered slot antenna (LTSA) is inserted into the air region between the parallel plates at the edge of the Luneberg lens as a feed antenna, with fine positioning to the focal point of the Luneberg lens to optimize the antenna system performance. A combined ray-optics/diffraction method is used to obtain the radiation pattern of the system and results are compared with predictions of a time domain numerical solver. Measurements done on a 10-cm Luneberg lens designed for operation at 30 GHz agree very well with predictions. For this prototype, 3-dB E- and if-plane beamwidths of 6.6deg and 54deg respectively were obtained, and the sidelobe level in the E-plane was -17.7-dB. Although the parallel plate configuration should lead to a narrow band design due to the dispersion characteristics of the TE₁₀ mode, the measurement results demonstrate broadband characteristics with radiation efficiencies varying between 43% and 72% over the tested frequency band of 26.5-37 GHz. The designed cylindrical Luneberg lens can be used to launch multiple beams by implementing an arc array of planar LTSA elements at the periphery of the lens, and can be easily extended to higher mm-wave frequencies.     

A variable-coverage satellite antenna system

A multibeam antenna system and-combiner switch capable of producing a variable-coverage radiation pattern are described. The antenna consists of a waveguide lens illuminated by a 19-element feedhorn array. The combiner switch consists of a corporate arrangement of variable power dividers; the latter is made up of two phase shifters and two conventional hybrid power-dividers. An earth-coverage radiation pattern with less than 2-dB ripple and an antenna gain ≈ 20 dB is obtained by equally exciting all beams of the muItibeam antenna simultaneously. Excitation of a single feedhorn results in a narrow beam with an antenna gain ≈ 30 dB and a near-in sidelobe level less -20 dB. The side|obe level can be reduced appreciably by appropriately exciting the adjacent feedhorns. The frequency bandwidth corresponding to 0.5-dB decrease in antenna gain is 10 percent. A technique for computing the radiation properties of the antenna is described; the agreement with measured data is shown to be excellent.     

低副瓣任意波束直接合成算法研究

在传统阵列天线波束赋形设计中，通过对阵元天线辐射方向图进行幅度相位加权，获得阵列合成方向图.通常阵元激励幅度相位权值的获取，取决于优化算法对目标方向图和阵列合成方向图的对比，通过对阵元激励幅度相位进行大量随机选参后，获得优化结果.由于算法通常是基于相关的阵元方向图，且算法中缺乏副瓣抑制机制，使得方向图合成效率不高且副瓣效果通常不理想.该文设计了一种任意波束直接合成算法.该方法首先在阵元方向图的基础上获得一组互相独立的高增益窄波束（自由基波束），然后基于此波束进行方向图的直接合成，使波束赋形问题统一到基于自由基波束权值运算的范畴内，对波束赋形问题进行了统一，避免了未知参量的随机优选过程，极大提升了阵列天线波束赋形设计的效率.同时在自由基设计的过程中结合了副瓣抑制机制，且这种副瓣抑制机制与波束赋形过程互相独立，使合成波束的副瓣天然地具备了低副瓣的特征.     

A 90-100 GHz double-folded slot antenna

A double-folded slot antenna (DFS) has been designed, fabricated, and tested at 90-100 GHz. The antenna shows a very wideband impedance around 20 Ω from 85 to 110 GHz. The low impedance is compatible with superconductor-insulator-superconductor (SIS) junctions, Schottky diodes or high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) amplifiers, which require a low impedance at millimeter wave frequencies. The antenna is placed on a dielectric lens to synthesize a semi-infinite substrate and realize high-directivity patterns. The measured radiation patterns agree very well with theoretical calculations and demonstrate symmetric main beams and sidelobe levels below -15 db over a 10% bandwidth. The double folded slot antenna is an attractive candidate for low-cost wideband millimeter-wave monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMIC) front ends     

卫星阵馈反射面赋形波束天线的一种高效旁瓣抑制方法

为了使卫星阵馈反射面赋形波束天线具有尽可能低的旁瓣电平,以降低日益增多干扰的影响,传统的波束赋形方法往往需要对约束点的数量和位置进行反复调整,故非常烦琐.因此本文在阵馈反射面天线的频域方向性相乘原理的基础上,提出了一种高效的旁瓣抑制方法,即在计算最佳激励系数时使用宽度较窄的点波束,而在计算赋形波束方向图时使用实际的点波束.由于这种方法通常只需要对少量约束点的位置进行调整,所以它可以高效地获得低旁瓣电平、高精度的赋形波束.     

Design of Multibeam Dielectric Lens Antennas by Multiobjective Optimization

We propose an effective method for designing multibeam dielectric lens antennas. A genetic algorithm (GA) with multiobjective optimization is adopted to balance gain against sidelobe level. The lens shapes and the position of each feed are associated with chromosomes. The gain and sidelobe level are evaluated by a pareto ranking method. The method yields the distribution of the objective function values and the corresponding antenna structures.      

An experimental completely overlapped subarray antenna

A completely overlapped subarray antenna was designed, fabricated, and tested to demonstrate its broad-band, low sidelobe, wide scan angle performance. It uses time delay steering at the inputs to a transform feed, which illuminates a phase-shifter steered objective lens. The transform feed is a Rotman lens and the objective is a cylindrical bootlace lens, both of which are parallel plate waveguide cavities with coaxial probe elements. The signal bandwidth goal of 20 percent (8.1-9.9 GHz) at55degscan was met easily, however, achieving the peak sidelobe goal of - 30 dB proved more difficult because of internal reflections in the Rotman lens beamformer. A brief summary is presented of the completely overlapped subarray antenna (COSA) concept to explain the detailed design of our experimental model. Antenna pattern and S-parameter measurements illustrate the operating principles, the difficulties encountered, and the results achieved.     

Nonuniform Luneburg and two-shell lens antennas: radiationcharacteristics and design optimization

Design optimization of radially nonuniform spherical lens antennas is the focus of this paper. In particular, special attention is given to the optimal design of nonuniform Luneburg (1964) lens antennas. One of the important engineering objectives of designing an optimal Luneburg lens antenna is to use as small number of shells as possible while maintaining an acceptable gain and sidelobe performance. In a typical radially uniform design, by reducing the number of shells, the gain is decreased and the grating lobes are increased. This deficiency in the radiation performance of the uniform lens antenna can be overcome by designing the nonuniform lens antenna. This necessitates the optimum selection of each layer thickness and permittivity. A genetic algorithm (GA) optimizer with adaptive cost function is implemented to obtain the optimal design. In this manner, the GA optimizer simultaneously determines the optimal material and its thickness for each shell by controlling the gain and sidelobes envelope of the radiation pattern. Various lens geometries, including air gaps and feed offset from the lens surface, are analyzed by using the dyadic Green's functions of the multilayered dielectric sphere. Many useful engineering design guidelines have been suggested for the optimum construction of the lens. The results have been satisfactory and demonstrate the utility of the GA/adaptive cost-function algorithm. Additionally, the radiation characteristics of a novel two-shell lens antenna have been studied, and its performance is compared to the Luneburg lens     

Extending the R-2R lens to 360°

The R.2R lens is a remarkable microwave device that provides perfect focusing, giving multiple simultaneous antenna beams from a circular or cylindrical array. However, the perfect focusing of the R-2R brings with it a serious limitation on angular coverage as a result of the angular doubling that enters when the array elements in the antenna are connected to the launcher elements on the lens periphery. We have now found a way to modify the R-2R concept so that a full circle of array elements can be mapped onto a full circle of beam ports. The new mapping makes use of hybrid junctions and either four or six physical lenses. The interconnections result in360degof simultaneous antenna beams, each of which can be used both for transmission and for reception.     

自适应旁瓣对消技术及其在数字阵列雷达中的应用

简要介绍了自适应旁瓣对消的基本原理,推导出便于工程实现的理论公式。结合某型数字阵列雷达的研制,分析其特点。详细阐述旁瓣对消技术在数字阵列雷达中的应用方法,给出了理论仿真结果以及工程实现框图。     

A comparison among 1-, 3-, and 7-horn feeds for a 37-beam MBA

A very common multiple beam antenna (MBA) configuration consists of a collimating device illuminated by an array of feeds. The collimating device is usually a reflector or a lens. The feeds are usually horn antennas with a circular aperture. The reflector is usually offset-fed to eliminate aperture blockage; the lens is center fed. The antenna's feeds are excited to produce a finite number of beams, so as to provide contiguous coverage of the field of view. The designer is forced to minimize the angular spacing between adjacent beams in order to maximize the minimum gain over the antenna's field of view. On the other hand, the feed horn's aperture gain is maximized when the feed horn spacing and its aperture diameter are equal. This results in antenna efficiency of the order of 30% when a single feed horn is excited to produce a beam. When a cluster of 3 or 7 adjacent feed horns are excited to produce a single beam, antenna efficiency can be increased to 50%. When it is tolerable, several identical antenna apertures can be used to replace a single aperture configuration. In this case, each of M apertures produces approximately N/M beams of an MBA that produces N beams. Horns producing adjacent beams do not illuminate the same aperture. This permits the use of a much larger horn aperture for a given beam spacing. This results in reduced spillover, higher gain of each beam, and increased antenna efficiency of each aperture. This paper investigates the maximization of gain for several lens antennas. It shows that antenna gain is increased as its focal length is decreased. That is, a focal length-to-diameter ratio (F/D) less than 1 is preferred     

基于均匀介质球透镜的二维扫描天线

在球透镜仅实现一维扫描的基础上,通过在另一维上平行放置多层馈源的方式,实现了二维同时扫描。基于坐标变换和GO/PO方法推导了馈源偏移量和波束指向角之间的关系式。该天线由一个均匀介质球透镜和多层平面馈源天线组成。通过同一层上的TSA(渐变缝隙天线)单元之间的切换实现水平面的扫描,而通过不同层上TSA单元之间的切换实现垂直面的扫描。作为在毫米波段的一个应用,研制了一个Ka波段用8×2的TSA单元阵馈电的天线实物。实测结果表明它可以在水平面和垂直面分别达到128°和30°的覆盖。     

Scalar horn with shaped lens improves Cassegrain efficiency

It is shown that the aperture efficiency of a classical Cassegrain antenna can be considerably improved if the radiation pattern of the feed is optimally shaped. The corresponding optimum field distribution Over the aperture of the feed consists of a circular main lobe which is surrounded by concentric sidelobe rings. This optimum field distribution with one sidelobe ring included is realized by shaping of a dielectric lens which is positioned in the aperture of a corrugated horn antenna. The design can provide a theoretical aperture efficiency of 90.5 percent when subreflector diffraction and aperture shadowing are neglected, i.e., an improvement of 0.4 dB compared to an optimum conventional feed. Measurements of a model at 22.8 GHz gave a practical result of 85.6 percent. If the model is used to feed a 30 m radiotelescope the overall antenna efficiency becomes about 71 percent.     

天线副瓣对雷达探测的影响研究

雷达天线均有副瓣,而且覆盖主瓣以外的所有区域。为了分析天线副瓣辐射对雷达探测的影响,建立了副瓣辐射、副瓣接收模型,给出了副瓣损耗因子、杂波增强因子与天线主瓣零点宽度、平均副瓣电平的关系公式。理论分析和计算表明,天线副瓣对雷达最大探测距离有一定的影响,对副瓣自卫距离有较大的影响,对杂波的影响很小。当天线副瓣较低时（平均副瓣电平优于-30 dB）,副瓣损耗因子对最大探测距离的影响可忽略不计;当天线副瓣较高时（平均副瓣电平-27～-20 dB）,副瓣损耗因子对最大探测距离的影响应予考虑。     

毫米波Rotman透镜天线设计

设计了一个毫米波Rotman透镜天线,该天线也是一个同时多波束天线。用Rotman透镜作为馈电网路,运用准光学技术替代大量移相器,获得同时多波束扫描,并且使电路变得简单,减少了体积和重量。包括馈电网络在内的整个天线系统采用微带来实现,并且使用Ansoft Ensemble仿真软件进行辅助设计,仿真结果表明,该天线可以实现大角度窄波束扫描。