Title :
Synthesizing layered dielectric cylindrical lens antennas
Author :
Komljenovic, Tin ; Sauleau, Ronan ; Sipus, Zvonimir
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Electr. Eng. & Comput., Univ. of Zagreb, Zagreb
Abstract :
A fast and accurate CAD tool for synthesizing layered cylindrical dielectric lenses has been developed. It is based on the G1DMULT and PSO algorithms, and is able to optimize the lens and feed configurations. The relevance of our optimization algorithm was assessed using in-house FDTD tools and commercial softwares. The agreement between these approaches is very good. Several lens antennas have been designed at 10 GHz. The prototypes are under fabrication.
Keywords :
CAD; finite difference time-domain analysis; lens antennas; particle swarm optimisation; CAD tool; FDTD tools; G1DMULT; PSO algorithms; cylindrical lens antennas; layered dielectric lenses; particle swarm optimisation; Dielectrics; Fabrication; Feeds; Finite difference methods; Lenses; Optical design; Prototypes; Software prototyping; Software tools; Time domain analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2008. AP-S 2008. IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2041-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2042-1
DOI :
10.1109/APS.2008.4619369
