An active array antenna system for satellite communication on-the-move

Author

Guo, Jian ; Xu, Zhenbin ; Qian, Cheng ; Dou, Wenbin

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Millimeter Waves, Southeast Univ., Nanjing, China

Volume

2

fYear

2010

fDate

17-20 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A Ku-band active receiving microstrip array antenna system for satellite communication on-the-move (COTM) is described. The factors contributing to antenna gain-to-system noise temperature ratio (G/T) are analyzed, based on which the number of antenna receiving channels is decided. Small size, low noise figure and ease to assemble low noise amplifier (LNA) modules are designed for every receiving channel. A block-of-down converter (BDC) is also designed for the antenna system to convert the 12.25 GHz to 12.75 GHz radio frequency (RF) signal to intermediate frequency (IF) signal. The method to calculate G/T of this active array antenna system is also given, and the calculated result is 10.5 dB/K.

Keywords

active antenna arrays; low noise amplifiers; microstrip antenna arrays; power convertors; satellite communication; BDC; Ku-band; LNA; active microstrip array antenna system; antenna gain-to-system noise temperature ratio; block-of-down converter; frequency 12.25 GHz to 12.75 GHz; low noise amplifier; low noise figure; satellite communication on-the-move;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signals Systems and Electronics (ISSSE), 2010 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6352-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSSE.2010.5607019

Filename

5607019