Millimeter‐wave planar high gain SIW antenna using half elliptic radiation slots

This article reports a high gain millimeter‐wave substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) antenna using low cost printed circuit board technology. The half elliptic slots which can provide small shunt admittance, low cross polarization level and low mutual coupling are etched on the board surface of SIW as radiation slots for large array application. Design procedure for analyzing the characteristics of proposed radiation slot, the beam‐forming structure and the array antenna are presented. As examples, an 8 × 8 and a 32 × 32 SIW slot array antennas are designed and verified by experiments. Good agreements between simulation and measured results are achieved, which shows the 8 × 8 SIW slot array antenna has a gain of 20.8 dBi at 42.5 GHz, the maximum sidelobe level of 42.5 GHz E‐plane and H‐plane radiation patterns are 22.3 dB and 22.1 dB, respectively. The 32 × 32 SIW slot array antenna has a maximum measured gain of 30.05 dBi at 42.5 GHz. At 42.3 GHz, the measured antenna has a gain of 29.6 dBi and a maximum sidelobe level of 19.89 dB and 15.0 dB for the E‐plane and H‐plane radiation patterns. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE 25:709–718, 2015.     

Design of a compact dual‐band folded‐waveguide bandpass filter using multilayer waveguide resonators

A novel compact dual‐band bandpass filter based on multilayer folded‐waveguide (FWG) structure is presented in this article.In this design, slots are used to realize direct coupling between adjacent resonators and apertures are adopted to implement cross coupling between non‐adjacent resonators.A new technique of external quality factor of FWG resonator and coupling coefficients between different resonators are studied using full‐wave simulator. In order to demonstrate the proposed technique, a four‐pole dual‐band bandpass filter is designed, fabricated and measured using vector network analyzer. Measurement results which are well agreed with simulation results are presented. Moreover, four‐pole substrate integrated folded waveguide SIFW dual‐band bandpass filter, using two layers of slotted folded waveguide resonators, is demonstrated. The proposed filter has a compact size and it is excellent candidate for the application of wireless communication systems. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE 25:780–788, 2015.     

Novel ultra‐compact two‐dimensional waveguide‐based metasurface for electromagnetic coupling reduction of microstrip antenna array

A novel ultracompact two‐dimensional (2D) waveguide‐based metasurface is proposed herein and applied for the first time to reduce mutual coupling in antenna array for multiple‐input multiple‐output applications. The unit cell of the proposed 2D waveguide‐based metasurface is ultracompact (8.6 mm × 4.8 mm, equal to λ₀/14.2 × λ₀/25.5) mainly due to the symmetrical spiral lines etched on the ground. The metasurface exhibits a bandgap with two transmission zeros attributing to the negative permeability in the vicinity of magnetic resonance and the negative permittivity in the vicinity of electric resonance. Taking advantage of these two features, a microstrip antenna array is then designed, fabricated, and measured by embedding an 8 × 1 array of the well‐engineered 2D waveguide‐based metasurface elements between two closely spaced (9.2 mm, equal to λ₀/13.3) H‐plane coupled rectangular patches. There is good agreement between the simulated and measured results, indicating that the metasurface effectively reduces antenna mutual coupling by more than 11.18 dB and improves forward gain. The proposed compact structure has one of the highest reported decoupling efficiencies among similar periodic structures with comparable dimensions. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE 25:789–794, 2015.     

波导法兰钻孔模优化设计研究

在雷达产品中,波导组件通过波导法兰盘端面的孔系进行定位连接,孔位置偏差大小直接影响波导组件装配后波导口之间的重合度。波导组件装配精度高,雷达传输系统的功率损耗小,产品电性能好。因此,优化波导法兰盘钻孔模的结构,提高法兰盘钻孔精度显得尤为重要。     

A full‐color eyewear display using planar waveguides with reflection volume holograms

Abstract— A full‐color eyewear display with over 85% see‐through transmittance with a 16° horizontal field of view was developed. Very low color crosstalk, less than 0.008 Δu′v′ uniformity, and 120% NTSC color gamut were achieved. Waveguides with two in‐ and out‐coupling reflection volume hologram elements enabled a simple configuration that has an optical engine beside the user's temples. The reflection volume hologram elements used on the waveguides realized a small thickness of 1.4 mm for each waveguide, and an out‐coupling reflection volume hologram used as an optical combiner contributed a high see‐through transmittance of 85% due to its wavelength selectivity. However, there are technical challenges in achieving a reasonable screen size and quality color images with optics that utilize holographic waveguides because holograms have large chromatic dispersions compared to conventional optical elements such as lenses and mirrors. Approaches to overcome these issues are described.     

Topological entropy and data rate for practical stability: a scalar case

A special class of nonlinear systems, i.e. expanding piecewise affine discrete‐time scalar systems with limited data rate, is used to investigate the role of topological entropy and date rate in a practical stability problem. This special class of nonlinear system as an abstract model is an extension of discrete‐time unstable scalar systems, a well‐known model for quantized feedback design. For such systems with finite quantization levels, how to design a quantized feedback controller to achieve practical stability is considered as a boundability problem. Unlike the existing results about topological entropy for nonlinear stabilization and optimal control for linear systems, for the boundability problem under consideration, the feedback topological entropy defined in this paper is not equal to the minimum number of the quantization interval (i.e. the minimal information rate) and only provides a necessary condition for the boundability of our system under some condition. A necessary and sufficient condition for the boundability is also presented in terms of an inequality related to data rate and the minimum number of quantization intervals. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley and Sons Asia Pte Ltd and Chinese Automatic Control Society     

970 nm超辐射发光二极管弯曲脊形波导数值分析

本文基于光束传播法(beam propagation method, BPM)和时域有限差分法(finite difference time domain method, FDTD)建立了分析模型,模拟并分析了弯曲脊形波导超辐射发光二极管(superluminescent light emitting diode, SLD)不同结构参数(刻蚀深度、曲率半径、脊形宽度)对波导损耗的影响和倾斜脊形波导不同结构参数(刻蚀深度、脊形宽度、倾斜角度、发射波长)对模式反射率的影响。计算表明,弯曲脊形波导的刻蚀深度和曲率半径是影响波导损耗的重要因素。刻蚀深度较浅使波导对光场的限制作用较弱,过小的曲率半径会使模式传输泄露严重,损耗大大增加。脊形宽度越大,波导损耗越小,其对波导损耗影响较小。脊形波导的端面倾斜角度是抑制模式反射率的重要因素,脊形宽度增加,模式反射率逐渐减小,并在特定的几个角度形成的奇点达到最小值。刻蚀深度对于模式反射率的影响作用较小,但随着刻蚀深度的增加,奇点发生的角度产生了向小角度偏移。在特定的倾斜角度范围内,随着波长减小,奇点的数目会逐渐增加。研究结果可对设计具有优越性能的SLD器件...     

低耗低剖面单层波导阵列天线研究

新型单层波导阵列天线具有低耗、低剖面、结构紧凑、实用性强等诸多优点, 在毫米波甚至太赫兹无线通信领域具有巨大应用潜力, 是当前的研究热点。 文章首先介绍了用于构建波导阵列天线的几类波导馈电网络的特点, 指出E 面波导馈电网络在毫米波应用领域的优势,接着针对E 面波导在单层并馈波导阵列天线和Butler矩阵多波束阵列天线方面的研究展开叙述,最后给出了可应用在单层波导阵列天线中的开口波导辐射单元在实现多频和圆极化等不同功能上的最新研究进展。 文章对于低耗低剖面单层波导阵列天线的发展及其应用具有参考价值。     

基于双 AWG 的新型 FBG 连续解调方法研究

为了实现基于阵列波导光栅(arrayed waveguide grating, AWG)的光纤布拉格光栅(fiber Bragg gratin, FBG)的连续解调, 提出了一种使用两个 AWG 联合解调的方法。 在一个 AWG 相邻两通道光谱中间插入另一个 AWG 对应通道的光谱,组成最小 的光谱周期;每次测量均从三通道中选择光强度最强的两个通道,利用相对光强解调算法,根据其波长—功率关系对 FBG 中心 波长进行精确测量。 使用两个 100 GHz 的 AWG 搭建了实验平台,并对温度传感器的解调进行研究。 实验表明,在 0. 8 nm 的系 统最小动态范围周期内,实现了对 FBG 的连续精确解调,系统的解调线性度达 0. 999 1,波长精度达±4 pm。 对数据和实验结果 进行数学分析,可以将 C 波段范围分成多个波长周期,系统可以实现在 C 波段 40 nm 全周期范围内对单个 FBG 的连续解调。 该方法不但可以实现在 C 波段范围内基于 AWG 对 FBG 的连续解调,使得运用 FBG 可以连续感测外界物理量变化,提高了系 统的实用性。 而且,该方法能够准确解调出波长信息,为实现对 FBG 的连续精确解调提供了借鉴信息,有利于进一步扩大 FBG 的应用领域。     

一种高功率微波有源相控阵天线单元设计

根据工程需要,本文提出了一种新型高功率微波有源相控阵天线单元,通过改造同轴波导变换器结构提升了功率容量和驻波特性,在同轴探针与阶梯波导之间引入方形金属块实现阻抗匹配,在波导末端添加过渡腔和匹配槽结构,并在喇叭段加入了单脊结构改变了波导阻抗,单脊伸出口径面降低了反射系数,进一步提升了功率容量。在X波段内VSWR小于2,带宽提升为1.25GHz,功率容量为33.24kW,比常规同轴波导变换器下喇叭天线功率容量提升了230％,7×7相控阵阵面可以实现1.62MW的发射功率,具备高功率微波发射能力。阵列可实现±30°圆锥扫描,满足高功率宽角度扫描的需求。