Lee et al., 2002 - Google Patents

Multi-beam phased array antennas

Lee et al., 2002

View PDF
Document ID
11476842547884106731
Author
Lee R
Romisch S
Popovic Z
Publication year
Publication venue
2002 Antenna Applications Symposium

External Links

Snippet

Many of NASA's future missions require multiple accesses to work together as a single system. To accomplish these missions, multi-beam phased array antennas are required to communicate between satellites flying in fixed formation. In this paper, a comparison of …
Continue reading at ntrs.nasa.gov (PDF) (other versions)

Classifications

    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—AERIALS
    • H01Q3/00—Arrangements for changing or varying the orientation or the shape of the directional pattern of the waves radiated from an aerial or aerial system
    • H01Q3/26—Arrangements for changing or varying the orientation or the shape of the directional pattern of the waves radiated from an aerial or aerial system varying the relative phase or relative amplitude of energisation between two or more active radiating elements; varying the distribution of energy across a radiating aperture
    • H01Q3/30—Arrangements for changing or varying the orientation or the shape of the directional pattern of the waves radiated from an aerial or aerial system varying the relative phase or relative amplitude of energisation between two or more active radiating elements; varying the distribution of energy across a radiating aperture varying the relative phase between the radiating elements of an array
    • H01Q3/34—Arrangements for changing or varying the orientation or the shape of the directional pattern of the waves radiated from an aerial or aerial system varying the relative phase or relative amplitude of energisation between two or more active radiating elements; varying the distribution of energy across a radiating aperture varying the relative phase between the radiating elements of an array by electrical means
    • H01Q3/40—Arrangements for changing or varying the orientation or the shape of the directional pattern of the waves radiated from an aerial or aerial system varying the relative phase or relative amplitude of energisation between two or more active radiating elements; varying the distribution of energy across a radiating aperture varying the relative phase between the radiating elements of an array by electrical means with phasing matrix
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—AERIALS
    • H01Q21/00—Aerial arrays or systems
    • H01Q21/06—Arrays of individually energised active aerial units similarly polarised and spaced apart
    • H01Q21/061—Two dimensional planar arrays
    • H01Q21/065—Patch antenna array
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—AERIALS
    • H01Q3/00—Arrangements for changing or varying the orientation or the shape of the directional pattern of the waves radiated from an aerial or aerial system
    • H01Q3/26—Arrangements for changing or varying the orientation or the shape of the directional pattern of the waves radiated from an aerial or aerial system varying the relative phase or relative amplitude of energisation between two or more active radiating elements; varying the distribution of energy across a radiating aperture
    • H01Q3/2605—Array of radiating elements provided with a feedback control over the element weights, e.g. adaptive arrays
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—AERIALS
    • H01Q21/00—Aerial arrays or systems
    • H01Q21/06—Arrays of individually energised active aerial units similarly polarised and spaced apart
    • H01Q21/061—Two dimensional planar arrays
    • H01Q21/064—Two dimensional planar arrays using horn or slot aerials
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—AERIALS
    • H01Q3/00—Arrangements for changing or varying the orientation or the shape of the directional pattern of the waves radiated from an aerial or aerial system
    • H01Q3/26—Arrangements for changing or varying the orientation or the shape of the directional pattern of the waves radiated from an aerial or aerial system varying the relative phase or relative amplitude of energisation between two or more active radiating elements; varying the distribution of energy across a radiating aperture
    • H01Q3/28—Arrangements for changing or varying the orientation or the shape of the directional pattern of the waves radiated from an aerial or aerial system varying the relative phase or relative amplitude of energisation between two or more active radiating elements; varying the distribution of energy across a radiating aperture varying the amplitude
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—AERIALS
    • H01Q21/00—Aerial arrays or systems
    • H01Q21/06—Arrays of individually energised active aerial units similarly polarised and spaced apart
    • H01Q21/20—Arrays of individually energised active aerial units similarly polarised and spaced apart the units being spaced along or adjacent to a curvilinear path
    • H01Q21/205—Arrays of individually energised active aerial units similarly polarised and spaced apart the units being spaced along or adjacent to a curvilinear path providing an omnidirectional coverage
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—AERIALS
    • H01Q21/00—Aerial arrays or systems
    • H01Q21/0006—Particular feeding systems
    • H01Q21/0018—Space- fed arrays
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—AERIALS
    • H01Q3/00—Arrangements for changing or varying the orientation or the shape of the directional pattern of the waves radiated from an aerial or aerial system
    • H01Q3/26—Arrangements for changing or varying the orientation or the shape of the directional pattern of the waves radiated from an aerial or aerial system varying the relative phase or relative amplitude of energisation between two or more active radiating elements; varying the distribution of energy across a radiating aperture
    • H01Q3/267—Phased-array testing or checking devices
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—AERIALS
    • H01Q21/00—Aerial arrays or systems
    • H01Q21/24—Combinations of aerial elements or aerial units polarised in different directions for transmitting or receiving circularly and elliptically polarised waves or waves linearly polarised in any direction
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—AERIALS
    • H01Q25/00—Aerials or aerial systems providing at least two radiating patterns
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—AERIALS
    • H01Q21/00—Aerial arrays or systems
    • H01Q21/0087—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing antenna arrays
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—AERIALS
    • H01Q1/00—Details of, or arrangements associated with, aerials
    • H01Q1/12—Supports; Mounting means
    • H01Q1/22—Supports; Mounting means by structural association with other equipment or articles
    • H01Q1/24—Supports; Mounting means by structural association with other equipment or articles with receiving set
    • H01Q1/241—Supports; Mounting means by structural association with other equipment or articles with receiving set used in mobile communications, e.g. GSM
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—AERIALS
    • H01Q15/00—Devices for reflection, refraction, diffraction, or polarisation of waves radiated from an aerial, e.g. quasi-optical devices
    • H01Q15/14—Reflecting surfaces; Equivalent structures
    • H01Q15/16—Curved in two dimensions, e.g. paraboloidal
    • H01Q15/161—Collapsible reflectors
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—AERIALS
    • H01Q1/00—Details of, or arrangements associated with, aerials
    • H01Q1/52—Means for reducing coupling between aerials; Means for reducing coupling between an aerial and another structure
    • H01Q1/521—Means for reducing coupling between aerials; Means for reducing coupling between an aerial and another structure reducing the coupling between adjacent antennas
    • H01Q1/523—Means for reducing coupling between aerials; Means for reducing coupling between an aerial and another structure reducing the coupling between adjacent antennas between antennas of an array
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—AERIALS
    • H01Q1/00—Details of, or arrangements associated with, aerials
    • H01Q1/27—Adaptation for use in or on movable bodies
    • H01Q1/28—Adaptation for use in or on aircraft, missiles, satellites, or balloons
    • H01Q1/288—Satellite antennas
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—AERIALS
    • H01Q3/00—Arrangements for changing or varying the orientation or the shape of the directional pattern of the waves radiated from an aerial or aerial system
    • H01Q3/12—Arrangements for changing or varying the orientation or the shape of the directional pattern of the waves radiated from an aerial or aerial system using mechanical relative movement between primary active elements and secondary devices of aerials or aerial systems
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—AERIALS
    • H01Q19/00—Combinations of primary active aerial elements and units with secondary devices, e.g. with quasi-optical devices, for giving the aerial a desired directional characteristic
    • H01Q19/10—Combinations of primary active aerial elements and units with secondary devices, e.g. with quasi-optical devices, for giving the aerial a desired directional characteristic using reflecting surfaces
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—AERIALS
    • H01Q15/00—Devices for reflection, refraction, diffraction, or polarisation of waves radiated from an aerial, e.g. quasi-optical devices
    • H01Q15/0006—Devices acting selectively as reflecting surface, as diffracting or as refracting device, e.g. frequency filtering or angular spatial filtering devices
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—AERIALS
    • H01Q13/00—Waveguide horns or mouths; Slot aerials; Leaky-waveguide aerials; Equivalent structures causing radiation along the transmission path of a guided wave
    • H01Q13/10—Resonant slot aerials
    • H01Q13/18—Resonant slot aerials the slot being backed by, or formed in boundary wall of, a resonant cavity ; Open cavity antennas

Similar Documents

Publication Publication Date Title
US11715880B2 (en) Waveguide feed network architecture for wideband, low profile, dual polarized planar horn array antennas
JP2585399B2 (en) Dual mode phased array antenna system
EP0963006B1 (en) Reconfigurable multiple beam satellite phased array antenna
WO2022188661A1 (en) Method and apparatus for communication using massive-beam mimo phased array
Dion et al. A variable-coverage satellite antenna system
Zaghloul et al. Advances in multibeam communications satellite antennas
US6690333B2 (en) Cylindrical ray imaging steered beam array (CRISBA) antenna
Cao et al. A wideband multibeam pillbox antenna based on differentially fed leaky-wave array
Ruggerini et al. A Ka-band active aperiodic constrained lens antenna for multibeam applications: Active discrete lens antennas are promising alternative solutions for multibeam coverage using a single aperture
Mei et al. A low-profile and beam-steerable transmitarray antenna: Design, fabrication, and measurement [antenna applications corner]
US20220239007A1 (en) Luneburg lens-based satellite antenna system
Kausar et al. Multi-beam high gain steerable transmitarray lens for satellite communication and 5G mm-Wave systems
US11502418B2 (en) Network for forming multiple beams from a planar array
Tomasic et al. A geodesic sphere phased array antenna for satellite control and communication
Jamnejad et al. Array antennas for JPL/NASA deep space network
US12113294B2 (en) Reconfigurable antenna
Lee et al. Multi-beam phased array antennas
US12132255B2 (en) Multibeam antenna
US12040558B1 (en) Ultrawideband beamforming networks
Kumar et al. A spherical phased array antenna with unequal amplitude excitation for satellite application
Romisch et al. Multibeam planar discrete millimeter-wave lens for fixed-formation satellites
Jamnejad et al. A study of phased array antennas for NASA’s Deep Space Network
Tan et al. A new concept for multi-beam phased array
US6300901B1 (en) Compact, modular tile architecture for limited field-of-view arrays
Kausar Design and Analysis of Beam Steering Antennas for Next Generation Wireless Communication