Title :
Reconfigurable Two-Arm Spiral Antenna Microwave Photonic Polarization Diversity Technique
Author :
Lara, Elias Roberto Lopez ; Fu, Wei ; Ghorbani, Kamran ; Rowe, Wayne S T ; Mitchell, Arnan
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., RMIT Univ., Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Abstract :
A microwave photonic configuration for multipattern control of a two-arm spiral antenna is presented. An elegant polarization diversity multiplexing scheme allows the two arms to be combined with dynamically reconfigurable amplitude and phase. Experimental demonstration of the bandwidth of the antenna and dynamic control of the radiation patterns is presented.
Keywords :
antenna radiation patterns; broadband antennas; electromagnetic wave polarisation; microwave photonics; spiral antennas; wavelength division multiplexing; dynamic control; microwave photonic polarization diversity; multipattern control; polarization diversity multiplexing; radiation patterns; reconfigurable amplitude; reconfigurable phase; reconfigurable two-arm spiral antenna; ultra-broadband antenna; wavelength division multiplexing; Antenna remoting; microwave photonics; optical fiber; photonic signal processing;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2009.2031248
